Economic and educational disparities have expanded rather than contracted in the years following Brown\, and post-Ji m Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. Suitts deftly reveals the risk that America and its underprivileged youth face as school voucher programs funnel public funds into predominately white and often wealthy private schools and charter schools.
\n\nAbout Steve Suitts
Born in Winston County (which s eceded from Alabama when the state seceded from the Union)\, Steve Suitts is an adjunct at the Institute for Liberal Arts of Emory University\, a po sition he has held for the last twenty years\, and has been chief strategi st for Better Schools Better Jobs\, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff membe r of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Libe rties Union\, a post he held for five years\; the executive director of th e Southern Regional Council for eighteen years\; and program coordinator\, vice president\, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation f or nearly twenty years. He is the author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution and was the executive producer and one of the writers of Will the Circle Be Un broken\, a thirteen-hour public radio series that received a Peabody Award for its history of the Southern civil rights movement.
\nCo-present ed with the Prince George's County Human Relations Commission.
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