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...Orfield described the role students played during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and challenged students to write about public affairs, to live in racially mixed areas and to fight for social justice...
...While Orfield derided the Bush administration, he commended religious leaders for inspiring civil rights progress...
...Gary Orfield, co-founder and co-director of the CRP and professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education authored “Brown at 50: King’s Dream or the Plessy Nightmare,” which was released to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr.’s 75th birthday...
Another contributing factor is the growth of the Latino and Asian populations, he said. Public schools that were previously 80 percent white in the 1960s are now only 60 percent white and, according to Orfield, the percentage of white students in the classroom is falling across the country...
...study found the West to be the most segregated area for Latinos, but Orfield contended that New York is now the epicenter for both Latino and black segregation. He also said that in general rural communities are more integrated than suburban and metropolitan areas...