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Chicago Public Schools and Segregation

by Madeleine Parrish and Chima Ikoro February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

he City of Chicago and its Board of Education have a long history of perpetuating segregation, starting with an 1863 City ordinance that required Black and White students to attend separate schools. Segregation in Chicago’s public schools only intensified when Chicago’s Black population boomed due to the influx of Black Americans from the South in […]

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