Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Rabbi Rachel Weiss recalled her time at Evanston’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lab Experimental School during a Tuesday event hosted by Northwestern Leadership Development and Community Engagement and Religious and Spiritual Life.
The school was designed to integrate primary education in Evanston. But Weiss said during her time there, there were almost no Black people in the parent-teacher association. She also said the new institution destroyed neighborhood school opportunities in non-white areas of Evanston.
“What happened to that school is really symbolic of all the things that happened in America,” Weiss said…