Fact check: Was Kamala Harris really one of the first to integrate Berkeley schools?

Posted on August 11, 2020
Fact check: Was Kamala Harris really one of the first to integrate Berkeley schools?

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Data from the Berkeley Unified School District shows the school had 15 black students in 1963 — a year before Harris was born. They represented 3% of the total elementary school student body, while other schools in the district had a black population as high as 97%

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