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Michael Meyers, B.A., Antioch College; J.D., Rutgers University, is Executive Director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, and past Asistant to the Chancellor of Higher Education, new Jersey, former Assistant National Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and protégé of Kenneth B. Clark, the social psychologist whose studies and work the United States Supreme Court cited as the modern authority in footnote 11 of theBrown vs. Board of Education ruling, providing the basis for overturning the doctrine of separate but equal in the field of pubtic education.
John P. Nidiry, B.A., Bowdoin College, is a first year law student at the University of Maine Law School.
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Meyers, M., Nidiry, J.P. Our public schools arestill separate and unequal. Soc 41, 12–16 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688212
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