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	Reporter Karen Schaefer

Urban Historian Says Racial Inequality a Continuing Struggle

Saturday, October 20, 2007

A visiting scholar at Case Western Reserve University's Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities says racial equality in our cities is an unfinished struggle that's holding back not only African-Americans, but our nation as a whole. Thomas Sugrue is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.

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