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1950's - 1960's.

That link is busted, doesn't work.

 

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Anyway, wasn't much of it segregated then? Well, I understand a lot of crackers want to go back to that, as well as wishing it had never changed.

Not to mention having a completely mistaken view of US education in any case.

Education in Rural America

1950s-1960s

But despite the importance of schools as an institution, educational attainment in mid-20th century America was the exception rather than the rule. According to the Economic Research Service of the USDA, in 1960 over well over half of all students never finished high school. Almost 57 percent of urban students and over 66 percent of rural students did not receive a high school diploma. The stereotype of a farmer's son or daughter leaving school after 8th grade was all too common.​