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Special to The Washington Post / Meredith Kolodner and Joanna Hou
17:31 JST,
August 29, 2024
On the first day of seventh grade, Elijah Brown clambered onto a bus. He was part of a desegregation effort that took him from his predominantly Black neighborhood in St. Louis to a school in the predominantly White suburb of Wildwood, Mo.