The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith so we had to do something.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago during a time of segregation these were an ideal.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

Only time education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Segregation has no place in the education system.