School Desegregation Battle: A Thing of the Past . . . and the Present: North Carolina -- 'Courage: The Carolina Story That Changed America' has returned to its original home at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte after a long time on the road. It took the story of the South Carolina case that led to the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision -- striking down school segregation -- to Atlanta, Baltimore, New York and the Museum of Tolerance, a Simon Wiesenthal Center museum in Los Angeles. Parts of the exhibition were used in a tour of South African museums arranged by the U.S. State Department.
As it moves back into the Levine, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, the historical perspective of 'Courage' could not be timelier. It comes as the country stops to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., though part of his dream -- equal educational opportunity for all children – is marred by achievement gaps and high dropout rates.
