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David Joles Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Left Behind"


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Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down legal segregation most African-Americans in Wisconsin and Milwaukee remain far behind whites in jobs, safety, housing, family stability and education. Once the classroom for some of Milwaukee's brightest leaders, Steuben Middle School in Milwaukee is a school in decline, a school parents avoid. It will close at the end of the 2003-2004 school year. Violence and the fear of violence plagues African-American students at Steuben and elsewhere in Wisconsin, where blacks between the ages of 15 and 24 are 18 times more likely to die from homicide than their white peers. Milwaukee Juneau High student Jestin Fayne was among the young black students murdered in 2003. Death and violence among black students is nothing new to Kenyattia Cagle, 16, Fayne's classmate, who has attended eight funerals for slain classmates and friends.
 

 

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