This August 1995 Education Week article about the merger of the urban, mostly black Chattanooga City Schools with the rural, mostly white Hamilton County Schools almost sounds like the debate going on here, only 16 years later.
If you were to replace the word "Chattanooga" with "Memphis" and switch "Shelby" for "Hamilton," the story and fears and possibilities are eerily similar.
Check it out here.
If you were to replace the word "Chattanooga" with "Memphis" and switch "Shelby" for "Hamilton," the story and fears and possibilities are eerily similar.
Check it out here.
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