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Robert C. Byrd: “It is far more important that black children be taught to read and write and add and subtract than to be hauled like…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1970
It is far more important that black children be taught to read and write and add and subtract than to be hauled like guinea pigs out of their own neighborhoods and away to a strange school only that they may look into white faces.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Feb 9, 1970

Editor's note · Context

Speaking against busing for school desegregation.

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