Children's Defense Fund: A Continuing Portrait of Inequality on 40th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act of 1964 From: U.S. Newswire | Date: July 1, 2004 | Copyright 2004 U.S. Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

WASHINGTON, July 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As July 2nd marks the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund, laments the continuing pattern of inequality for Black children, and reiterates the need for a 21st century movement to ensure equal opportunity:

"Forty years after President Johnson declared a War on Poverty and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education,...

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