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Today, there is universal access to free, public schools across the United States for kindergarten through 12th grade. That didn’t happen by presidential decree. It took populist pressure from the progressive movement, beginning in the 1890s, to make widespread access to free public schools a reality. By 1940, half of all young people were graduating from high school. As of 2013, that number was 81 percent. But that achievement is no longer enough. A college degree is the new high school diploma.

This sudden, enormous demand, Thelin adds, could have pushed college costs higher — but didn't, because states embraced the idea. The booming postwar economy allowed them to spend unprecedented sums of money to expand higher education

I think about it all the time, because I realize [how] it has limited me, by not having that piece of paper," he says.

not as an integrationist or a civil-rights leader but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother.

ro, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities

Let me take note of my other major disappointment.

Some -such as Ralph McGill, Lillian Smith, Harry Golden, James McBride Dabbs, Ann Braden and Sarah Patton Boyle

So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he mus

The other force is one of bitterness and hatred,

One is a force of complacency,