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From Slavery to Civil Rights: Impressions on Educational Inequality

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Robert Moses, an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the lead strategist behind Freedom Summer, founder and president of the Algebra Project, was a keynote speaker at Pursuing Human Dignity, a conference sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and Harvard Law School. In this excerpt, he reflects on the history of educational disenfranchisement of African Americans and considers how historical discrimination informs education today.
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Video length
18 min 57 sec
Other location
Cambridge, MA
Date filmed
Nov 4 2005
Series title
Pursuing human dignity : the legacies of Nuremberg for international law, human rights, and education
Source URL: http://www.facinghistory.org/video/from-slavery-civil-rights-impressions-educat

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