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Basics: Early Try At Integration
Ronald Reagan’s movie, “Bedtime for Bonzo” was based on a real incident.
In the comedy, Reagan played a psychology professor who was trying to prove that environment or nurture was everything and that heredity, nature, genes, was nothing. He adopted a chimpanzee and tried to raise it as a child to prove this.
In the real incident, a professor decided to raise his newborn child along with a chimpanzee to prove the same thing. The experiment ended when his child failed to learn to talk. The child was becoming chimpanzee-like; the chimpanzee remained totally a chimp.
This evidence was NOT introduced in the case of Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka, which outlawed segregation in schools. But if you look at integrated schools today, its relevance is hard to miss.
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