Who has not heard of Brown vs. Board of Education? Linda Brown's parents wanted her to attend her neighborhood school. The problem schools were white only in her neighborhood. Brown declared schools could no longer discriminate by having all white schools only. It was Charles Hamilton Houston, the architecture of the strategy for the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Houston, was the mentor of the former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Houston used his intellect to help his people. Houston loved his people.
Fort Wayne did not love its African-American children. It was not until 1989 that Fort Wayne Community Schools and a group of parents agreed to an out-of-court settlement to racially balance its 53 schools. The settlement would end in the 1997. Race would be used as a factor to remove African-Americans from their neighborhood schools.
Today, East Allen County Schools are resettling African-Americans students from their neighborhoods School. This is Fort Wayne, Indiana. There is a saying if we don't remember our history we are doomed to repeat it. We are in the repeat mode in 2011.
Dr. Wendy Robinson would become the first African-American Superintendent of Fort Wayne Community Schools.
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