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This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American civil rights movement, both before and after the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, particularly desegregation of the school systems and the military. Racial integration of society was a closely related goal.
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.
In 1937, when Joe Louis defeated German boxer Max Schmeling, the general American public embraced an African American as the World Heavyweight Champion. [ 109 ] In 1904, Charles Follis became the first African American to play for a professional football team, the Shelby Blues , [ 109 ] and professional football leagues agreed to allow only a ...
Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation), leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture ...
The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...
The Detroit school busing case: Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation (University Press of Kansas, 2011) online. Burkholder, Zoë. An African American dilemma: A history of school integration and civil rights in the North (Oxford University Press, 2021) online.
United States racial desegregation case law (1 C, 35 P) Urban decay in the United States (4 C, 62 P) ... Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War;
A week later, in the largest mass arrest of rabbis in American history took place, while they were conducting a pray-in at the segregated Monson Motel. A well-known photograph taken in St. Augustine shows the manager of the Monson Motel pouring hydrochloric acid in the swimming pool while blacks and whites are swimming in it.