By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Connecticut Mirror
National civil rights groups have a name for Connecticut’s inertia: They titled their recent report outlining rejected proposals and “dynamic gradualism” by state leaders “A Steady Habit of Segregation.”
“Public deference to white suburbia would fatally circumscribe the state’s practices in the area of desegregation for decades to come,” Susan Eaton wrote in the report released by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council.
