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How did the formation of IS293 perpetuate segregation?

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

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The formation of IS 293 perpetuated segregation in that practically no white parents sent their kids to newly integrated schools to study with African Americans, Hispanic, or other minority students.

Created at the beginning of the 1960s, IS 293 initiated in the times of the American Civil Rights movement led by famous social activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The idea of integration was good. However, white people had concerns about the kind of relationships their sons could develop if they took classes with "different" students and the intermingling of cultures, traditions, beliefs, and customs.

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