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In the 1960's, in California, African American parents set up an elaborate ruse to get their children a better education. Restricted to poor schools in low income East Palo Alto, outside of San Francisco, parents looked across the freeway and devised a way to send their children to wealthy Palo Alto schools. A young mother, barely educated herself, organized the Sneak Out program. Working with white parents, the program was a modern day Underground Railroad. KQED FM's Kathy Baron paints a portrait of conducters and passengers, students and safe houses in the fight to end school segregation.
Sneak Out was produced by Kathy Baron of KQED FM.
Links:
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Grant targets race gap in Madison high schools
The U.S Department of Education recently gave a generous grant to the Madison School district to even the playing field between high schools of low and high education levels
Books:
 Through My Eyes
by: Ruby Bridges 1999
Bridges takes us through her life as a six-year old intergrating into the new education system after Brown vs. Education.
 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by: Sherman Alexie 2007
A young Native boy has his own Sneak out experience without being sneaky.
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