This Black History Month, CBS2 is examining a racial divide when it comes to education. Segregated schools are still a big problem in New Jersey, and there's a new effort to solve it. csloantv began the conversation with a local civil rights pioneer.
Segregated schools are still a big problem in New Jersey, and there's a new effort to solve it.Retired New Jersey science teacher Theodora Smiley Lacey is a civil rights icon -- a Teaneck school bears her name -- but the 90-year-old grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, in the deep South during segregation.
New Jersey, though, was where she'd move to with her husband and lead a movement to make Teaneck the nation's first town in the 1960s to integrate its schools. At FDU's Madison campus, students in Madelyn Ferrans' public policy class are focusing on New Jersey's residential segregation, which they say leads to school segregation.
Members of Newark's Central High School girl's basketball team said they see the racial divide at games.
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