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  • How to Win Friends and Influence White People

    Mosi Secret

    September 08, 2017 |

    This American Life |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    In the mid-60’s, Anne Forsyth, an heiress, noticed that despite Brown V. Board of education, white prep schools in the South were not being integrated. She wanted to change that. She also thought that by exposing white students to Black students it would make them less bigoted. So, she created the Stouffer foundation, which recruited Black students and placed them in white prep schools. In its first year, 20 black teenagers were placed in 7 white prep schools. Decades later, one student says it made him less racist.

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