Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision and the battles over busing, no issue has divided the American people more than race, and at the heart of the race issue has been the conflict over school segregation and desegregation. Prior to the Civil War, South Carolina enacted the first compulsory illiteracy law, which made it a crime to teach slaves to write, and other Southern states soon followed South Carolina's example. After the Civil War, schools for...
Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the "Brown v. B...
