Author: United States Commission on C Committee

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780656137619

Excerpt from Racial Harassment in Vermont Public Schools I urge you to please develop a sense of urgency about racism within our schools. All of our children are be ing diminished. If you are in a position to receive this report. You are most likely in a position to do some thing about ii. You have an obligation to all children to be a catalyst for change. Don't allow the legacy that parents of children of color have had to pass on to each generation continue, the legacy of picking our children up at and attempting to repair the dam age that has been done to them during their school day: Racism is not a problem or an issue; it's a way of life. Excerpt from parent testimony' On the evening of June 25, 1997, a 13-year old African American boy was beaten with a baseball bat outside a Burlington mall by several white teenagers, who witnesses claim shouted racial remarks at the victim.2 A week before the attack, community leaders in Burlington spon sored a forum to discuss race relations and ways to end racial harassment in the surrounding community. The forum was spearheaded by sup port groups and community action organizations that for many years have expressed concern for the safety of minorities and have voiced their belief that overall race relations in the State have deteriorated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.