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Fifty years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites remains the same

by Michael A Fletcher

Even as racial barriers have tumbled and the nation has grown wealthier and better educated, the economic disparities separating blacks and whites remain as wide as they were when marchers assembled on the Mall in 1963.

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