Howard Zinn's "Teaching People's History" website illustrates the importance of Critical Race Theory with a cartoon, which I took the liberty of posting for us below.

Today, 1944, FDR passed the Gi Bill of Rights, which helped veterans afford homes, attend college, invest in small businesses, and find employment.

The bill, however, even though federal, was administered by states, where Jim Crow laws and practices severely limited equal access to benefits.