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All Aboard?

If doing this one thing would instantly lift Richmond from the bottom 10 percent of American cities to the top 10 percent, then wouldn’t we do it?
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The Long Shadow of Segregation

In 1970, the public schools of Richmond were racially integrated by crosstown busing of students. The court ordered that the percentage of black and white students in the system (70 […]
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