Fifty Years after Brown v. Board, MDC Inc., a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, says that poorly resourced high schools in the South are not preparing the region's growing numbers of African-American and Latino students for the increasingly prosperous Southern economy, with higher-skilled employment needs. Despite decades of gains in improving race relations and equity for students of color, the region has been backsliding since the 1990s into greater inequality. The report warns that if the South allows its children to grow up and go to school isolated by race and income, its communities will suffer anew.