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On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren issued the Supreme Court ’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal ...
The road to desegregated education in the United States was a long and difficult one, and stands as a testament to the remarkable power, tenacity, and moral clarity of great African American trailblazers who refused to settle for the inherent injustice of “separate but equal.”
The massive effort to desegregate public schools across the United States was a major goal of the Civil Rights Movement.
For years, many public schools separated children based on their race. Here’s how that changed so that kids of all races could go to school together.
As the United States marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, many of the nation’s classrooms remain racially separate and unequal.
In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools. Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American history and remains an issue in contemporary education.
The nation’s largest school districts, in particular, have seen a surge in segregation since the 1990s, according to research from Stanford University’s Educational Opportunity Project. The history of school desegregation efforts, from Brown v. Board to today, shows how far the U.S. has come – and how far it has to go.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was...
Board of Education, a new report from researchers at Stanford and USC shows that racial and economic segregation among schools has grown steadily in large school districts over the past three decades — an increase that appears to be driven in part by policies favoring.
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district...