Civil war virtual symposium, im chris mackowski, editorinchief. Thank you so much for joining us today. Our next speaker i fondly call professor at henry hill, because by day he is a music teacher. No relationship to Daniel Harvey or ambrose powell, dan welch is the secretary of our organization. Hes the coauthor of the book the last road north, i get god to the gettysburg campaign. He works as a historian at Gettysburg National military park. Hes here to talk to us about one of the lesser known but absolutely vital actions of the battle on cops hill. Ladies and gentlemen, dan welch. I want to begin by thanking all my friends and colleagues in emerging civil war. Our symposium cochair, chris mackowski, for having me here today to present to you this often forgotten story of the battle of gettysburg. Over the last 157 years, so many of us are familiar with the stories of Joshua Chamberlain and little round top, pickets charge, cemetery seminary ridge. What is often lost or some of the s
I am joined now by gary orfield whos the professor at ucla who did the study. Welcome to chasing news. How are you . Well, i have to ask you. The reaction was so what. Basically what the court said was a half century ago that segregated schools in inherently unequal because they are not segregated by race, but also by poverty, by the nature of the curriculum and segregated by the likelihood and going to college and level of competition and the whole system of bill can i ask you something . On that, wouldnt it have everything to do with economics. If you look at the makeups of new jersey. You got camden and newark that have a very, very high concentration of minority population. So you dont have a real mix in the city that would stand to reason they will reflect that . Well, you got residential segregation that is serious. You got division of the metros into many separate School Districts and nobody is doing almost anything to overcome it. There are lots of things that can overcome it.
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