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Charges of 're-segregation' at N.C. High School
- 03-13-2010
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By Dave Dewitt/NPR
A high school in Wayne County, N.C., has a student population that is poor and 99 percent black. That's not the case at other public high schools in the rural county. And that has prompted a civil rights inquiry — and complaints about what one leader calls "re-segregation." Goldsboro High is a classic American high school, with white columns, a two-story brick facade, and transoms over the classroom doors. It was where, 60 years ago, a teenage Carl Kasell took drama from an energetic teacher named Andy Griffith. Now, students like Michael King roam the hallways. (more...)
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