. >> when did you learn that even moscowitz was controversy. >> it was during the shoot.was intentional about avoiding controversy and politics. i did not want to divide the audience. i did not have any particular side that i took. we found that was impossible. what i learned of the process is that it is not really about sides. there are many people looking to create -- it really should be about what is best for kids. i thought was important to show the controversy in the end because there is the question i had which is why there aren't more schools like this because parents want them and they are successful. unfortunately, the answer you get to that is that it is because some parents don't care or because of poverty or culture. lús!q6ñwhat is interesting abot clip is that the parents in harlem were surprised by the results that the school was getting. these schools are proving is that that is not true. it is not society and it is not a parents lack of interest that is causing the enormous achievement gap between the west chesters of the country and the harlems of the co

dubois, henry moscowitz, mary white ovington, oswald garrison villard and william english walling, a biracial group that consisted of christians and jews. it is a history that includes some of the most significant moments in our nation's great story where we've come to a more perfect union. the 1954 case of brown vs. board of education of topeka, the greaa landmark supreme court case that ended the separate but equal fallacies that our government and laws labored under since plessy b. ferguson. the chief counsel, thurgood marshall, later one of the great justices of our supreme court. the naacp's contributions also have included support for and rallying and lobbying for the %% 1957, 1960 and 1964 civil rights acts, the 1965 voting rights act and the 1968 fair housing act where clarence mitchell led the way with the naacp. and, of course, the court case that the naacp was involved in, loving vs. virginia, that turned over the laws in this nation in 1967. a set of laws that our precursors to other laws that still are in debate in this nation today. but the fight didn't end there, which