Americans embrace equality as an ideal but resist its practical implementation

Evidence

Equality is one of the founding ideologies of America, yet actually putting equality into practice does not seem to be as popular as the support for the idea. “Equal opportunity” has been a theme of the latter half of the 1900s and continues to be a notion of struggle because equal opportunity does not necessarily constitute equal results. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 2

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the gap between declared values and material outcomes in U.S. civil rights history.