Black Political Zone

The Boston Globe reported today on the Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, AL that is attempting to end an order issued during the 1970s that integrated the school. Opponents of this effort suggest that the school is bringing back segregation. They report:

Those fighting to keep the desegregation order in place are particularly disappointed that the issue would be revisited in Birmingham, where much of the civil rights movement's history was made.

In the last 15 years, city leaders have built museums and monuments to commemorate the four schoolgirls who died in a 1963 bombing of a black church, and the demonstrators who were met by attack dogs in a march led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the same year.

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