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Today, when the term “civil rights” appears to be an old-fashioned concept and the ideology of post-racialism penetrates the minds of many Americans, it is only proper to pause and recognize moments in history that remind us not only of how far we have come, but of how the fight for equality still continues.

I was born in 1936 and raised in Altamonte Springs, Fla. I remember clearly the day the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which ended school segregation in our nation. I was beginning high school then and had to ride a bus for three hours every morning to get to the all-black Crooms Academy High School in Sanford, Fla. With this landmark case, we saw the start of a social transformation in our country.

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