In King's Wake: Forty Years Later, Assessing a Legacy of Goals Achieved and Promises Left Unfulfilled: Racism Less Pervasive, More Complex

Authors

F. Michael Higginbotham, University of Baltimore School of LawFollow

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

4-4-2008

Abstract

Four decades after Dr. King's death, Barack Obama, the U.S. Senate's only black member, may become America's first black president. Today, what I call the ghosts of Jim Crow are caused by choices that result in housing isolation, inequitable school funding, criminal justice stereotyping, and health care service inadequacy that maintain inequality.

Recommended Citation

In King's Wake: Forty Years Later, Assessing a Legacy of Goals Achieved and Promises Left Unfulfilled: Racism Less Pervasive, More Complex, Baltimore Sun, April 4, 2008, No. 95, p. A.21