| 单词 | desegregate |
| 例句 | A desegregated cup of coffee, a theater, public toilets—the whole range of hypocritical “integration”—these are not atonement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dwaine pegged the start of his son’s problems to 1982, when the junior high school he went to got desegregated as a result of the fight that had taken place in the courts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he finished, the three teams had reported back that the restaurants were indeed desegregated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Lake took a public stand against any sort of compromise, saying that the state should close its public schools rather than desegregate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Board of Education of Topeka, which dictated that schools be desegregated, many black CPS students continued to attend schools that were nearly all black. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The day before the election, a downtown art movie theater had its first desegregated screening. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He had telephoned the national headquarters of Howard Johnson’s and had asked them to “encourage” the local franchise to desegregate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Two other restaurants had desegregated the night before, and others promised to follow suit within days. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He immediately ordered the schools to be desegregated. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was only two years earlier, in January of 1962, that Birmingham’s Bull Connor had refused to desegregate the city’s public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z South Carolina was the only state in the union that had yet to desegregate its schools. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They had desegregated Durham’s tennis courts in this manner a few months earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But that changed when the federal government ordered the hospitals to be desegregated: within just seven years, the black infant mortality rate had been cut in half. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He announced that three more restaurants had agreed to desegregate and he suggested that someone from St. Joseph’s leave immediately to verify his claim. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By executive order President Truman desegregated the military in 1948, raising expectations among black Americans that conditions would improve even more. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Through his law practice, McKissick also emerged as the leader of the fight to desegregate Durham's public schools, guiding black parents through the maze of requirements devised by the school board to delay integration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The hospital had long been desegregated by this point. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Nor, until Hurd came to town, had any significant public pressure to desegregate the schools been placed on the school board and administration by the minority community. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern states to desegregate public facilities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The city’s public swimming pool had also desegregated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z District Court, Judge Roth had devised a clever way to desegregate the schools. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not too sure that desegregating schools is going to fix the Negro’s problem.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Oklahoma, it declared that Oklahoma had to desegregate its law school. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The justices said schools in the United States had to be desegregated. Poems tell the story of the first black students at Tennessee school in ‘The Promise of Change’ 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z As part of the first group of undergraduates to desegregate the university, in 1956, Ms. Conrad was barred from living with white students on campus or eating in white-owned restaurants nearby. With a Voice and a Spirit, Triumphing Over Racism 2011-02-07T23:23:33Z He issued orders enforcing black voting rights and with more blacks appearing on juries, desegregated the jury box. A South Carolina Judge Writes a Book About a Predecessor, an Unsung Giant of Civil Rights Law 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Board of Education, its decision to desegregate public schools. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z She was the first black student to attend the college, which sued the Commonwealth of Virginia to desegregate the institution. The Independent Women of Sweet Briar 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Telling Mr. Harris about her time in Memphis, which included the lonely and humiliating experience of desegregating a school, was “healing,” Ms. Kyles said afterward. Mining Memories to Preserve the Past 2011-02-22T00:00:04Z To this end, she not only desegregated her audience but internationalized her programming. Seeking answers to L.A.'s 99-seat theater crisis in the legacies of two theatrical trailblazers 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z What’s more, the city’s schools were, at the time of the events dramatized in “The Best of Enemies,” already under court order to desegregate. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z York’s life changed forever in the early 1970s, when Richmond schools were forced to desegregate. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He joked: “I thought I’d come to give talks about racism in Britain, not to desegregate the south.” Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z A civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate Southern schools in the 1960s and was pushed out of his University of Mississippi teaching job amid uproar over his work on behalf of Black clients. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In the early 1940s he spearheaded the March on Washington Movement, the predecessor to the demonstration two decades later, which pushed Franklin Roosevelt to sign an executive order desegregating defense production industries. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z At the time, the city’s one professional theater, the National, was temporarily shuttered because of its refusal to desegregate. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z White personally petitioned his friend Harry Truman in advance of the president’s 1948 executive order desegregating the military and subsequent decision to support the addition of a rights plank in the Democratic Party platform. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z After every major league desegregated, the idea of winning had begun to trump something as pedestrian as color. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z You may also know that the decision ordered states to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” Two Documentaries on School Integration Offer New Views of an Old Problem 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z She then worked at several other high schools, was a reading specialist for Black students at a newly desegregated high school, and taught history and English to teenagers in a psychiatric hospital. Jill Biden returns to the classroom, live and in person 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z In 1799 the ghetto was desegregated, and by 1850 there were about 400 Jews in town, roughly 10 percent of the population. Cultured Traveler: A ‘Little Jerusalem’ in the Heart of Italy 2012-11-22T18:40:22Z Koinonia was a dangerous place to be from, especially if you also happened to be a student at a school being forced to desegregate—a student who actually supported that desegregation. The day my bullies apologized: Race, the South and a reconciliation decades in the making 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Her grandmother, whose childhood home was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan, was one of the first Black people to work at the Pentagon and desegregated the church Coaston’s family attended. D.C.’s rising libertarian star, with her ‘healthy skepticism of state power,’ secures an influential podcast 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The first Southern library to be desegregated, the Cossitt is now undergoing a renovation. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z There are various reasons I’m sure the South didn’t want to desegregate. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z We desegregated the schools… Wake County consolidated the old county and city schools to enforce desegregation. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z He dropped out, struggling with depression, and returned to the recently desegregated University of Louisville to study painting. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z On his first day of office, we learn, he removed all “white” and “colored” signs in City Hall, and helped desegregate the building’s cafeteria. National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It marked the culmination of more than a decade of protests to desegregate the national pastime. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Brown-Trickey, now 79, was one of the Little Rock Nine, the first group of African American children to go to the city’s Central high school in September 1957 – and in doing so, desegregate it. Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Board of Education that public schools had to be desegregated — ends only the first act of the opera. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Board of Education—the critical case that desegregated U.S. public schools. Princeton Receives a $300 Million Gift of Rare Books 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr Buchanan calls Nixon a centrist, who as president desegregated public schools in the South and expanded the reach of federal paternalism. The populist manifesto 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z And although several Alexandria high schools did consolidate in 1971 to reduce racial imbalances, the city’s public school system had officially desegregated six years prior. Not just a football movie: How ‘Remember the Titans’ became a hit and inspired a nation 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z It was in Nashville that Clement was the first to record Charley Pride, a black singer, which helped desegregate country music and began an association that lasted 13 albums. Country music legend 'Cowboy' Jack Clement dies at 82 2013-08-09T00:08:57Z In 1974, a federal judge ordered that Boston’s public schools be desegregated by sending white students from schools in South Boston to schools in the predominantly black neighborhood of Roxbury, and vice versa. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z His mother and father were civil rights foot soldiers who in their spare time would do things like sue their hometown police department to force it to desegregate. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z She went to work for the Y.W.C.A. and joined black women in seeking to desegregate youth programs. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z One of Smith’s sly moves with the original “Anthology” was that he “successfully desegregated the collection by not indicating whether the singers were white or black,” according to Cohen’s liner notes. The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z At the same time that American communities are desegregating racially, they are becoming more segregated in terms of schooling and earnings. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z In a town that would rather close its pools than desegregate them — a Civil Rights-era practice called “drained-pool politics,” as a program note says — the cause consumes them for years. Review: Racism Echoes Through Time in ‘the ripple’ 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Her mother, a Jewish housewife from Chicago, took part in a campaign to desegregate Atlanta’s schools. What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Supreme Court ruled to desegregate American schools in Brown v. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z He attended segregated schools in Tennessee before, bravely, in 1962, becoming one of the first blacks to desegregate a junior high school. Books of The Times: ?The Last Holiday: A Memoir? by Gil Scott-Heron - Review 2012-01-09T23:31:50Z Forty years earlier, Mr. Duncan had refused to sing “Porgy and Bess” in Washington unless the theater where it was being performed was desegregated. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Then, in 2007, a divided court undid much of Brown’s legacy by proclaiming that districts could not consider an individual student’s race when making school assignments — even if the purpose was to desegregate. The Power of the Supreme Court Inside America’s Schools 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Conspiracy-friendly conservatives have recirculated an old story claiming that Berkeley schools were desegregated long before Harris came along, which is absolutely false. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z What racism does is it desegregates white people and aggregates people of color. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Southern Rites In this new documentary, filmmaker Gillian Laub documents a divisive murder case in a Georgia community that recently desegregated its high school proms. Monday's TV Highlights: 'The Night Shift' on NBC 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z An earlier version of this article misstated when President Harry Truman signed an order to desegregate the U.S. military. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z He desegregated his events, which he called crusades, and invited a young Martin Luther King Jr. to appear with him in New York. Sarah Colt on Why 2021 Is the Right Time for a Film About Billy Graham 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z He also argued, successfully, for a decision that made it easier for states to end court orders requiring school districts to desegregate. The ‘Enigma’ Who Is the Chief Justice of the United States 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Holmes County Board of Education, which, after years of obstruction by many states through the 1950s and 60s, ordered that racially segregated schools must immediately desegregate. Two Documentaries on School Integration Offer New Views of an Old Problem 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z In January 1963 Wallace pledged “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever,” and in June of that year he showily attempted to block federal officials seeking to desegregate the University of Alabama. What the Tumultuous Year 1968 Can Teach Us About Today 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z She officially desegregated the event the following year. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z But more important, he was an avid R&B fan who played a major role in exposing the work of black artists to white audiences, essentially desegregating the airwaves. Alan Freed or Beyonce? False debate rages around Rock Hall 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z She focused on women, like the group of black golfers in the Wake-Robin Golf Club, who fought to desegregate the sport in Washington in the 1930s. Too Good to Be Ignored: Women Who Reached the Top in Sports 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Supreme Court desegregated schools in 1954, separate schools, such as Pine Grove, eventually closed. Virginia community looks to preserve former school that’s part of segregated past 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z That same year, he publicly urged President Dwight Eisenhower to send troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect Black students seeking to desegregate its public schools. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z When my brother Stacey, part of the Ruby Bridges generation, went to a desegregated school in seventh grade, my dad gave him The Talk. Wendell Pierce: The First Time My Dad Gave Me ‘The Talk’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Did I mention that Mary appears to get wasted at one of the show's first filmed events, and then lectures two African-Americans on the need to desegregate -- wait for it -- hair salons? "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z But to “desegregate Southern photography,” as he puts it, is not just to be Black and making images today. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Though white fraternities and sororities were officially desegregated by the end of the 1960s, many local chapters continued to informally prioritize new white members. The War on Frats 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z But it did not formally desegregate until 2013, after the student newspaper reported that Black freshmen were still being denied bids during that year’s recruitment process. #BamaRush, Explained 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Jenkins says River Park was one of the first desegregated complexes in Washington and also promoted aging in place. This owner disregarded resale and made her glam apartment a gift to herself 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z This year marks 75 years since the U.S. military desegregated, and the numbers still aren’t where they should be, according to the panel of prestigious Black officers. A celebration of Black military heroism comes to Inglewood 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Closing the libraries would have been eerily similar to the history across the U.S. of closing swimming pools rather than desegregating them, Halpern said. Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Army to be desegregated, the Miss A contract specified that contestants be “in good health and of the white race.” Patt Morrison: L.A. used to be awash in beauty pageants. Where'd they go? 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The lawsuit goes on to note the military was desegregated but recent moves have set racial goals for hiring and diversifying the academy’s members. Group that took down affirmative action at Harvard, UNC sues West Point 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z States were ordered to begin desegregating their public schools. The road to school desegregation 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z He also liked the idea of desegregating queer history. Cruising Santa Monica Boulevard with the fetish photographer who shot L.A.'s male hustlers 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Near the entrance, a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln commemorates the founding of the desegregated cemetery in the late ’20s. With the fate of their sacred space in limbo, they took over the cemetery 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The university officially desegregated its sorority system in 2013, following allegations about discrimination in the sorority recruitment process. It's Bama Rush season on TikTok again. What you need to know about the RushTok phenomenon 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Tyler, 16 at the time, was in a cohort of Black students desegregating Destrehan High School in a New Orleans suburb. The radical L.A. student newspaper that inspired a generation of activists 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Law led the civil rights campaign that peacefully desegregated the city’s schools, stores and restaurants in 1963. Savannah considers Black people and women for city square to replace name of slavery advocate 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z As a presidential candidate in 2020, he told the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that he was involved in desegregating restaurants, though there is no evidence he worked to do that. Biden again falsely claims a role in civil rights activism in the 1960s 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z As a student he was active in the movement to desegregate public accommodations in Chapel Hill. James Reston Jr., Author With a Hand in Nixon Apology, Dies at 82 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z It was not until 1948 that the armed forces were desegregated though an executive order issued by President Harry S. Truman, although racial strife in the services continued through the Cold War and beyond. The Final Fight for Black Sailors Known as the ‘Philadelphia 15’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The group sees the name change as a way to restore South Carolina as the cradle of the movement to desegregate public education. South Carolina group to ask Supreme Court to rename landmark school desegregation case 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z A few years after Osborne graduated, the School Board began crafting a plan for mandatory integration, conceding that voluntary efforts weren’t proving effective and desperate to head off a federal court order to desegregate. Seattle schools chose integration. But then it fell apart 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Supreme Court ruled that Seattle’s racial tiebreaker policy violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause, marking the end of a 40-plus year effort to desegregate the city’s classrooms. What does school integration mean to you? 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z It had a stated aim of creating “a national movement to desegregate the public conversation about race.” A Black woman and a white woman went viral fighting racism. Then they stopped speaking to each other 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The year is 1974, President Richard Nixon has just resigned, a federal judge has ordered the busing of students to desegregate the city’s public high schools, and irate White parents are raising hell. Review | Dennis Lehane’s masterful new novel revisits the terrain of ‘Mystic River’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Even though Lexington was in the segregated south, it was a federal facility and desegregated. Marie Nyswander Changed the Landscape of Addiction. Here's How Her Story Begins. 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Supreme Court desegregated the nation’s schools in 1954, Orange County public schools remained segregated for years afterwards. Residents of historically Black town sue to stop land sale 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Here in Seattle, the national wave to desegregate led to a grand voluntary experiment in busing students to different neighborhood schools across the city. What does school integration mean to you? 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The legislation doesn’t specify where the monument would go on the Capitol grounds, which includes several other monuments, including one honoring the nine Black students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas lawmakers OK anti-abortion monument at Capitol 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z In the illustration, Harris’ shadow is of a young girl, Ruby Bridges — the first Black student to desegregate an all-white Louisiana school. Why Seattle Schools is hinging student success on Black male achievement 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z In the state of Virginia, massive resistance was even written into state law, allowing the closing of public schools that were ordered to desegregate by federal judges. Let’s give thanks to the "Dilbert" guy 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Newman graduated from high school as his class valedictorian in 1969, a year before his local school district desegregated. Murdaugh judge’s own legal story unfolded in South Carolina 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Areas surrounding Greenfield were less progressive: It would take the neighboring town of Hillsboro another 70 years to desegregate its schools. How America’s first — and only — Black automakers defied the odds 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Bakke was poised to be the court’s most important ruling on race since its order to desegregate public schools in Brown v. Why Is Affirmative Action in Peril? One Man’s Decision. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z That would insulate it from market forces and desegregate low-income tenants from people who make well over Seattle’s median income. Seattle voters to decide on ‘social housing,’ but what is it? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z When Dr. King talked about his plans to desegregate Montgomery’s transit system, he described his philosophy of nonviolence, of turning the other cheek. Once Told to Move to the Back of the Bus, Jesse White Became an Illinois Institution 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Stephens suddenly found himself on the leading edge of the computer age — as well as the cutting edge of a slowly desegregating federal bureaucracy. Perspective | The District’s Consorts social club thrives on its 70th anniversary 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Efforts to desegregate schools in the aftermath of Brown v. NYC’s Black schools chief isn’t sure racial integration is the answer 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Many say he lost his reelection bid because of his efforts to desegregate public areas. Maryland’s AG has taken on the gun lobby, the drug industry and Trump 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Supreme Court decision compelled the nation’s public schools to desegregate. Perspective | Should schools late to desegregate offer reparations? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The group was attempting to stop Black students from desegregating their school and succeeded in blocking their entrance. Dak Prescott on controversial 1957 Jerry Jones photo: 'I believe in grace and change' 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The group was blocking six Black students who were attempting to desegregate the school and news reports said that moments after the image was taken, the students were shoved down a flight of stairs. LeBron: Media disparity between Jones photo, Irving comments 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He became a squad leader in the Third Infantry Division in an integrated Army, the military having been desegregated after World War II. Hiroshi Miyamura, Given Medal of Honor in Korean War, Dies at 97 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Stern mostly avoided topical poems, but he was a longtime political activist whose causes included desegregating a swimming pool in Indiana, Pa., and organizing an anti-apartheid reading at the University of Iowa. Gerald Stern, celebrated poet of nature, whimsy and memory, dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Stern mostly avoided topical poems, but he was a longtime political activist whose causes included desegregating a swimming pool in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and organizing an anti-apartheid reading at the University of Iowa. Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Further efforts to desegregate the U.S. military and the federal government spearheaded by Harry S. Truman increased Black support of the Democrat Party. Black Republicans are ‘no longer hiding’ as they run for Congress 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Supreme Court was deliberating cases that would desegregate America’s schools. At the DC History Center, the public gets a new look at the city’s past 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Their first protests, including an attempt to desegregate the city bus depot, resulted in hundreds of arrests — so many that the Albany jail overflowed and protesters were sent to neighboring counties. Charles Sherrod, Civil Rights Pioneer in Rural Georgia, Dies at 85 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Truman, who was born and reared in Missouri, helped end World War II, created the United Nations and NATO, desegregated the U.S. Statue of Harry Truman unveiled in U.S. Capitol Rotunda 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Department of Education, which hired him to travel around the South and deliver court orders ordering school districts to desegregate. Column: He helped thousands of Latino students, including me. Do they remember him? 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The university’s tactic, she said, “is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate.” Yeshiva University halts clubs amid High Court LGBTQ ruling 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate nationwide, and Landrieu couldn’t in good conscience go along when Gov. Jimmie Davis steamrolled legislation to keep students in New Orleans separated by race. New Orleans political patriarch Moon Landrieu has died 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “They were trying to get the schools desegregated, so I grew up with the feeling that a lot needed to be changed. Then I went to college and got even angrier.” ‘A roaring from my body’: Novelist Cai Emmons on writing while running out of time 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Truman also desegregated the armed forces, again by executive order, in July 1948, overriding many objections that the military was no place for social experimentation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z On a walk in Paris with a group that included Richard Wright, Baldwin recalled noticing a front-page photo of Dorothy Counts wading through a hostile mob to desegregate a Charlotte high school. How a trip to D.C. helped James Baldwin affirm his Southern identity 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z A good example occurred when the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which desegregated public accommodations and prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race, was introduced in Congress. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The American military services were not desegregated until after President Harry Truman’s order in 1948. A first: African American Marine promoted to 4-star general 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order that desegregated the Marine Corps during World War II, General Langley listed a slew of Black Marines who went before him. After 246 Years, Marine Corps Gives 4 Stars to a Black Officer 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Within a year, more than one hundred cities had desegregated at least some public accommodations in response to student-led demonstrations. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 1975, Hollingsworth was elected to the Seattle School Board, where she would help lead the effort to racially desegregate schools by busing students across the district. Dorothy Hollingsworth, trailblazer in Seattle’s education, civil rights community, dies at 101 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “Fred’s legal brilliance of strategy desegregated schools and secured the right to vote,” the president said. Biden honors 17 people with Presidential Medal of Freedom 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In the late 1950s and 1960s, midwives were pushed out of the industry as hospitals became desegregated and white physicians sought control over the birth market. Amid abortion debate, clinic asks: Who’s caring for moms? 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z It was desegregated several years later, though there have rarely been many more than a half-dozen Black students at a time. Stonewall Jackson’s Name Fell Fast, and a Fury Quickly Followed 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The sit-ins inspired other forms of nonviolent protest intended to desegregate public spaces. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z President Lyndon Baines Johnson had quietly encouraged such grassroots lobbying, and surprised her by insisting that hospitals nationwide had to desegregate before getting Medicare funding. Civil rights advocate Xernona Clayton is still ‘fearless’ 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Second, at news of the shooting, I was struck to hear the words “Robb Elementary” because I knew of its centrality to the struggle in Uvalde over the past half-century to desegregate its schools. Opinion | I’m from Uvalde. I’m not surprised this happened. 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. consulted with organizers in Baton Rouge before organizing the Montgomery boycott, which lasted 382 days and ended with a Supreme Court ruling desegregating the Montgomery transit system. Johnnie A. Jones Sr., pioneering civil rights lawyer, dies at 102 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z After the Supreme Court ordered schools in the South to desegregate, many white parents pulled their children from public schools and sent them to all-white private schools known as segregation academies. Roe Inspired Activists Worldwide, Who May Be Rethinking Strategy 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Board of Education prohibited segregation in public schools, but not all school districts integrated willingly, and President Eisenhower had to use the military to desegregate Little Rock’s Central High School. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He took on saintly powers, lecturing on racism, desegregating Richie’s band. Henry Winkler Breaks the Curse of Stardom 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z So the Divinities actually use nonviolent direct action to carry out desegregation campaigns, they deliberately buy properties in segregated communities and desegregate them by having his followers go there. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z The most famous example is the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, in which Black residents of the Alabama city refused to ride the bus until it was desegregated. Boycotting Disney and Oreos: The red flags that MAGA is a cult 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In more recent decades, dozens of public — and free — Montessori programs have opened across the country, often as part of explicit efforts to desegregate schools. Review | The unconventional life and radical vision of Maria Montessori 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The remaining volunteers continued to Mississippi, where they were arrested when they attempted to desegregate the waiting rooms in the Jackson bus terminal. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z So the only way to desegregate was to use buses. Lakers vs. Celtics is bigger than basketball. The truth behind the NBA's top rivalry 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z What struck me most was the scope of success they had in desegregating the North in battles that are largely forgotten but were clearly foundational for the later mass movement in the South. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z They, like him, believed in focusing their efforts on childhood cancer, and they agreed that the hospital should be need-blind and that both its staff and its patient population should be completely desegregated. Donald Pinkel, who developed a cure for childhood leukemia, dies at 95 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Efforts to desegregate those school systems have taken several forms over recent decades. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Senator Revels’s speech, what is “social equality” and why is it important to the issue of desegregated schools? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The university later celebrated Foster’s legacy, her role in desegregating the institution and her bravery. Foster, first Black student at University of Alabama, dies 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z There was a Supreme Court ruling that transportation between states had to be desegregated — within a state it was still considered legal. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Twyla and Roberta see each other next when schools in their community desegregate, and they end up in opposite picket lines. An elegant, timely test for readers from Toni Morrison 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, for example, several southern states defied a Supreme Court ruling that schools must desegregate. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the country’s best-known desegregated schools, the William Frantz Elementary School, where Ruby Bridges enrolled as the first Black student, is slated to receive a marker this year. Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marks a long road to equality 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z In 1961, in a breakthrough case, Motley headed the team that desegregated the University of Georgia with the admission of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, a feat that “cemented her standing,” Brown-Nagin observes. Review | A Black lawyer who dismantled barriers, for herself and many others 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Board of Education ruling urging that schools be desegregated with “all deliberate speed.” City posts white desegregation story on Black History Month 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Collins, the board member who was criticized for her tweets, said during the campaign that she had “desegregated” Lowell. ‘You have to give us respect’: How Asian Americans fueled the San Francisco recall 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Decades have passed since civil rights activists desegregated lunch counters across the Jim Crow South and a landmark federal voting rights act went into law. Racial unity still a focus years after N.C. church merger 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Conversely, Catholic schools were among the first to desegregate and some government officials who opposed racial integration were excommunicated. Black gay priest in NYC challenges Catholicism from within 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z “We desegregated a school. Lowell now has the most diverse incoming class that it ever has had,” Collins said in an email. Saga of San Francisco’s school board heads to the ballot box 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Board of Education of Topeka, desegregating public schools. In Maryland, a segregated school is one of many in the country to be preserved 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I talk about the first sit-ins with my parents, who were left-wing people and were very instrumental in desegregating downtown Washington. Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein on journalism, Trump and history: "The truth is not neutral" 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Board of Education, when the Supreme Court ordered districts to desegregate and White parents fled from their cities’ schools. Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The success of the Tuskegee Airmen is believed to have influenced the then-president's decision to desegregate the armed forces in 1948. Pioneering US military pilot Charles McGee dies at 102 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The constitution largely sought to ensure that the period of Massive Resistance — the period in which Virginia public schools closed to avoid desegregating — could not be repeated. Opinion | Gov.-elect Youngkin’s proposed CRT executive order opposes the spirit of the Virginia Constitution 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The church bombing came during the height of the fight for Civil Rights in America, and as Birmingham’s public schools were being desegregated. Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Racist attitudes and discrimination against people of color in the military were official policies before President Harry Truman, on July 26, 1948, signed Executive Order 9981, which officially desegregated the armed forces. Decades of DOD efforts fail to stamp out bias, extremism 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Pringle was in elementary school when Philadelphia was beginning to wrestle with the issue of desegregating its public schools. New Leader Pushes Teachers’ Union to Take On Social Justice Role 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Together, they explored Cape Town's thriving, desegregated gay nightspots, and spotted a newspaper headline that showed how far both man and country had come. Sir Antony Sher: A giant of the stage 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. had ruled in favor of Black parents seeking to desegregate Richmond’s schools. Perspective | As one of the first White kids in a Black school, I learned not to fear history 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z And it really began back in 1949, when Washington’s African Americans were booed and harassed out of the city’s newly desegregated swimming pools. Perspective | A new environmentalist for the next generation is a doll. And she’s from D.C. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Asked how he would approach the task of desegregating schools, Mr. Adams said he would focus on making sure that children with disabilities and other challenges were not separated from their peers unnecessarily. A Last-Chance Mayoral Election Guide 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Back in Louisville, the school district had, for decades, used a busing plan to desegregate classrooms, which later required at least 15% and no more than 50% Black enrollment at the district’s schools. Three generations of Black women overcome boundaries and setbacks with love 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Seth Boyden has also been the focus of efforts to further desegregate the towns’ schools. Online Furor Over a Student’s Hijab Engulfs a Liberal Town 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Starting as a young second lieutenant commissioned in the dawn of a newly desegregated Army, Mr. Powell served two decorated combat tours in Vietnam. Colin Powell, Who Shaped U.S. National Security, Dies at 84 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Only one tribe in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation, has fully reversed those policies and desegregated its constitution in February this year. After denying care to Black Natives, Indian Health Service reverses policy 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Before the Woolworth lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro in 1960, there were Murray and peers from Howard University leading a direct action to forcefully desegregate the Little Palace Cafeteria in 1943. Review: 'My Name Is Pauli Murray' recounts a groundbreaking life 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s one thing for the state to pass laws to desegregate neighborhoods, set aside more land for subsidized housing and require cities to permit backyard cottages. California Housing Is a Crisis Newsom Can Take Into His Own Hands 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The units were disbanded in the late 1940s, as the Army ceased the use of horses in warfare, around the same time the military was ordered desegregated. Buffalo Soldiers, the Famed Black Cavalry, Get a Statue at West Point 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z There is ample historical precedent for the decision to hold hospitals to certain standards — notably, the historical directive to desegregate patients by race, Dr. Jha said. Federal Research Bolsters the Case for Vaccine Mandates 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, she became a champion of one of the earliest efforts to desegregate Seattle Public Schools, an initiative in which students would voluntarily transfer between Lowell and Madrona elementary schools. This week’s passages 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, she became a champion of one of the earliest efforts to desegregate Seattle Public Schools, an initiative where students would voluntarily transfer between Lowell and Madrona elementary schools, according to the profile. Kay Bullitt, Seattle philanthropist and civil rights activist, dies at 96 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Hospitals only desegregated when they were threatened with the loss of federal funds from the Medicaid and Medicare programs, which were enacted in 1966. Racial Inequities Persist in Health Care Despite Expanded Insurance 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z “Run” begins in Americus, Ga., in the summer of 1965, as Lewis is leading about a dozen local activists to try to desegregate a small church. John Lewis finished this graphic memoir as he died. He wanted to leave a civil rights ‘road map’ for generations to come. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The memorial plaque — and its affirmation that this and similar crimes eventually moved President Harry S. Truman to desegregate the armed forces — will be placed at the site where Hall was last seen alive. Army to memorialize Black soldier lynched on Georgia base 80 years ago 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z While in college she was active in local civil rights protests, leading efforts to desegregate a Woolworth’s in downtown Washington. Gloria Richardson, Uncompromising Civil Rights Advocate, Dies at 99 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z The Freedom Riders intended to test the ruling, knowing many southern transit stations had refused to desegregate. Arrested and beaten during civil rights protests, she’s 93 and finally telling her story 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Board of Education decision that desegregated public education. Arkansas legislators question why disbarred Clinton’s name added to law school chair 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z By then, he’d had a long career as a prominent civil liberties lawyer working to desegregate public schools throughout the country. Judge David Tatel’s lack of eyesight never defined him, but his blindness is woven into the culture of the influential appeals court in D.C. 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Even after schools were desegregated, schools whose students were largely Black or Latino remained underfunded, Professor Shankar said. Behind Zaila Avant-garde’s Win, a History of Struggle for Black Spellers 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z And the county has a long history of racial hatred: It was a hotbed of Confederate resistance, and its schools and community sites were among the last in the nation to desegregate. How and why Loudoun County became the face of the nation’s culture wars 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z He was in the fifth grade on Virginia’s Eastern Shore when the new constitution went into effect and stayed in public schools as they desegregated under the new law. He helped rewrite Virginia’s constitution to guarantee Black voting rights — ‘a blessing’ 50 years ago 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z In fact, President Harry S. Truman ordered the military desegregated 73 years ago. Opinion | Imagine if a Squad member called a general a stupid pig. Tucker Carlson just did. 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z That year she did a history project on the “Little Rock Nine,” the first African American students to desegregate Arkansas’ Central High School in Little Rock. Exceptional leaders for social change: Black educators group honors Seattle student activists 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Hospitals could start to measure how they distribute patients across provider teams and actively institute measures to desegregate patient care where needed. Modern-day segregation in hospitals is killing Black patients 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Still later, the county was one of the last corners of the United States to desegregate, after forcing Black children to attend dilapidated rural schools for much of the latter half of the 20th century. How and why Loudoun County became the face of the nation’s culture wars 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z “We were the last county in the commonwealth to desegregate,” Ziegler said. Perspective | We can’t fight racism if Whites see any remedy as a threat and an insult 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Jemison informed the driver of a recently passed ordinance to desegregate buses in the city, meaning White wasn’t violating any rules. Martha White dies, sparked ’53 Louisiana capital bus boycott 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Board of Education, which desegregated public schools, and 1978’s Regents of the University of California v. Perspective | Why the battle for gay marriage was won so easily 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Surrounded by towering oaks, Pine Grove continued to withstand the elements after it was closed in 1964 when the county desegregated its schools, through long stretches of neglect. An educational haven for Black children during segregation makes endangered places list 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Baltimore moved quickly to desegregate its schools, and Mrs. Pelosi has pointed to it as a source of pride. Pelosi refuses to denounce father’s complicity in racism 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z And in the 1960s, residents of Elizabeth City - and students at its university - worked to desegregate the region’s businesses, with many getting arrested. Deputy shooting becomes part of city’s long history on race 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z And in the 1960s, residents of Elizabeth City — and students at its university — worked to desegregate the region’s businesses, with many getting arrested. Deputy shooting becomes part of city’s long history on race 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The numbers represent the latest signal that efforts to desegregate those schools while maintaining an admissions exam are failing. Only 8 Black Students Are Admitted to Stuyvesant High School 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z It was a major victory for the students in Nashville, the first major Southern city to desegregate its downtown accommodations. Nashville civil rights veterans see hope for future 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Days after taking office, he filed the first lawsuit to force a school district — Dale County, Ala. — to desegregate or else lose its federal school aid. Ramsey Clark, Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Elder’s story is hailed as one that helped desegregate the game. Perspective | Lee Elder made history at the Masters. He made an impact in Washington. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z White flight took off after the Supreme Court struck down racial covenants like the one on my house in 1948 and moved to desegregate schools in 1954. Opinion | In upper Northwest, displacement happened long ago 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Told he could only be a steward to white officers, he wrote to the chief recruiter and was allowed to take the engineering exam just when President Harry Truman was moving to desegregate the military. Black space engineer, housing advocate Ken Kelly dies at 92 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Besides dealing with the coronavirus recovery, plenty of other key issues will be decided in Albany: raising taxes on the wealthy, schools funding, fixing the subway and desegregating specialized high schools. New York Mayoral Candidates Weigh How Hard to Hit Cuomo 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Robinson is a Knoxville native and was the first Black undergraduate student admitted to the university and one of three Black students to desegregate the university fully in 1961. University of Tennessee to name dorms for Black trailblazers 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Earlier, she also was one of the first Black students to enroll in Harrisonburg High School when it began to desegregate. Three JMU buildings once named for Confederates now honor African Americans 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Holt carefully tracks the path of the movement, discussing, for example, the shift from sit-ins aimed at desegregating lunch counters to voter drives in such bastions of racism as Mississippi. Review | What made the civil rights movement successful — and what came next 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Howard graduated from Wilson Teachers College in Columbia Heights, which merged with Miner Teachers College in the 1950s when D.C. schools desegregated and became a predecessor of the University of the District of Columbia. Margaret Howard, beloved librarian to young readers, dies at 96 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z But after schools were ordered to be desegregated in 1954, English said a lot of the country looked away from the systemic racism still plaguing Black communities, especially in the Deep South. Pastor says fight for civil rights looks different in 2021 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The theory also argues that external windows of opportunity, such as the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools, must open for movements to succeed because they are too weak on their own. The Power of Social Justice Movements 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z And in May, Winston-Salem became the first Southern city to voluntarily desegregate its lunch counters. Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In the 1950s, Byrd’s political machine implemented a series of official state policies that opposed court-ordered public school integration and even closed some public schools rather than desegregate them. Virginia lawmakers vote to remove statue of segregationist 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z President Harry Truman formally desegregated the U.S. military in 1948, but it took years for that edict to become a reality. Biden launches tricky sales pitch on his defense secretary pick 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In 1968, the tumultuous year when Wilson and other schools became desegregated, he became not just the first Black principal at Wilson but also the first Black principal west of Rock Creek Park. Opinion | Rename D.C.’s Wilson High for these two educators 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z Later in his presidency Truman would desegregate the U.S. military, which was unquestionably the right thing to do but made him deeply unpopular. Joe Scarborough on Harry Truman, Donald Trump and what the hell happened to the Republican Party 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z This led to inexorable pressure to desegregate the military itself and, over time, help launch the civil rights revolution. Opinion | Give justice a seat at our tables of gratitude 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Board of Education, which mandated desegregated public schooling nationwide. Alexandria City schools will rename T.C. Williams High, of ‘Remember the Titans’ fame 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The Albany Movement was the first attempt to completely desegregate a community, including through teaching nonviolence for people to engage in civil disobedience. How Joe Biden did so well in Georgia 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z In 1970, Ms. Harris joined the second elementary school class in Berkeley to be desegregated by busing. ‘A Long Time Coming’: Black Women Celebrate Harris’s Ascension 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z As a college student at American Baptist College and then Fisk University, Lewis helped desegregate public spaces in Nashville and pushed for racial justice across the South. Nashville names street after Civil Rights icon John Lewis 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z During his tenure, the Nashville church played a critical role in the civil rights fight, including serving as a staging ground for the activists working to desegregate downtown lunch counters. Symposium honors legacy of Nashville civil rights leader 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The benefits of attending diverse schools are also intergenerational, passing from grandparents who attended desegregated schools to their children and grandchildren. Perspective | Five myths about school segregation 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The first picture was of a group of White women protesting against desegregated schools. Louisiana Dem rep says she's embarrassed to be a White woman, gets trolled online 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Loudoun County fought an order to desegregate its schools for more than a decade after the Supreme Court ruled it illegal. Loudoun County Public Schools apologizes for history of segregation 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Biden only needs to point to Harry Truman, the first president to personally and publicly commit himself and the federal government to civil rights and the president who desegregated the armed forces. Opinion | Trump loves low blows, but voters want a clean debate. Biden shouldn’t take the bait. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z During the 1950s she played a key role in efforts to desegregate downtown Kansas City department stores, said former Jackson County legislator Mamie Hughes. Kansas City civil rights leader Rosemary Lowe dies at 94 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Truman’s decision to sign executive orders desegregating the military and the federal work force was an electoral broadside constructed, in part, to help win over the support of northern Black voters. How the Black Vote Became a Monolith 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Eisenhower desegregated Washington, D.C., and completed Harry S. Truman’s desegregation of the military. Eisenhower Memorial, Delayed by Design Disputes, Opens This Week 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Despite the enormous sacrifices made by Black soldiers overseas, the military wasn’t officially desegregated until 1948. The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z After a lawsuit, the city opened a separate, segregated area for Black families in 1951, which was used until Maryland parks were desegregated in 1954. As summer winds down, these parks are the perfect escape 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Kennedy faulted Markey for his initial opposition to the effort to desegregate the Boston Public Schools beginning in the 1970s. Edward Markey defeats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Democratic primary 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But the demonstrators didn’t quit and the city eventually relented, desegregating the system and making Martin Luther King Jr. a national figure. Some see age-old playbook in new Tennessee protest law 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Board of Education decision in 1954 that desegregated public schools, and he sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Ark., to escort Black students past the defiant governor and an angry white mob. Eisenhower Memorial, Delayed by Design Disputes, Opens This Week 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z His parents successfully fought to desegregate Crockett County Schools in 1968 and DeBerry and his siblings were the first Black children to go to Alamo's high school, he said. Longtime Democratic lawmaker 'appalled' by comparisons between unrest and MLK's civil rights movement 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Many were closed after schools were desegregated, the release said. Tulane grant to aid revival of abandoned school buildings 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Inspired by the recent U.S. racial justice protests, Johnson plans to expand Folded Map into other neighborhoods, and add resources on her website for people to help desegregate their own cities. Chicago artist brings segregated residents together in 'Folded Map Project' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The university had been officially desegregated in 1954, when it began admitting Black students, but the sororities on campus remained a bastion of discrimination. Elizabeth Warren’s Evolution on Race Brought Her Here 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z That section of the law required federal agencies that deal with housing and banking to pursue their missions in a way that would actively desegregate housing. Opinion | Trump (again) uses housing as a racial wedge 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Born the son of sharecroppers in 1940, Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders who participated in sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Nashville. Eulogized by presidents and civil rights leaders, John Lewis laid to rest in Atlanta 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z That summer he listened to students who endured arrests and beatings in their efforts to desegregate Cambridge, Maryland. 'I loved John Lewis': how he and Robert Kennedy forged an iron bond 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The District’s schools weren’t desegregated until 1954, and the Wisconsin Avenue Manual Training School was for white students only: cabinet making and woodworking for the boys and housekeeping for the girls. Perspective | This fine Georgetown building started life as a vocational school 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z School administrators tacitly condoned segregated Greek life, even as the newly formed Black Student Union made desegregating sororities a top priority. Elizabeth Warren’s Evolution on Race Brought Her Here 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z After a series of marches, sit-ins and arrests, Birmingham shops and businesses finally agreed to desegregate all restrooms, lunch counters, fitting rooms and drinking fountains and to hire more black workers. The frustration of trying to invest in my hometown 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Many of those respondents were disaffected Southerners furious at the commander-in-chief for desegregating the military that same year. How does Trump stack up 100 days out? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s different from Oxford, Miss., in 1962, or Little Rock in 1957, when local officials were openly defying federal court orders to desegregate. How Trump’s Use of Federal Forces in Cities Differs From Past Presidents 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Attending H.B.C.U.s used to be the norm for top-notch Black athletes who, before college sports gradually desegregated through the 1960s, had little other choice. Black Lives Matter Protests Spawn Push for Athletes to Attend H.B.C.U.s 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In three months, after repeated well-publicized sit-ins, the city’s political and business communities gave in to the pressure, and Nashville became the first major Southern city to begin desegregating public facilities. John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z He studied history at Western Illinois University in Macomb, but he dropped out and became a recreation worker in Peoria, Ill., where he joined his first protest, in 1947, helping to desegregate a cafeteria. C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther King’s Field General, Dies at 95 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z At 15, he was arrested while desegregating his local library in Georgia, and he has carried a belief in civic action since. In D.C.’s Shaw, enjoying the fruits of a long, hard-won transformation 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Board of Education Supreme Court ruling desegregating schools and signed the “Southern Manifesto” which opposed public integration. Congressional Democrats target Confederate symbols at Capitol, US military bases 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Board of Education lawsuit that desegregated America’s schools. NAACP, long headquartered in Baltimore, will move to 14th and U Streets in D.C. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Supreme Court decisions to desegregate public schools - adopted a flag without a rebel banner in 2003. Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “In less than three weeks, the lunch counters were desegregated,” David Halberstam, who covered the campaign for The Nashville Tennessean, later wrote in The Times. C.T. Vivian, Martin Luther King’s Field General, Dies at 95 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Supreme Court decisions to desegregate public schools — adopted a flag without a rebel banner in 2003. Confederate flag losing prominence 155 years after Civil War 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Private country clubs proliferated in the first half of the 20th century in part because public clubs had been ordered to desegregate. Are exclusive private golf courses getting a huge break on property taxes? Critics say it’s time to recalculate 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The reason for the shift is unclear — and those attitudes have so far not translated into desegregated schools or neighborhoods — but may help explain the cascade of responses to Mr. Floyd’s killing. From Cosmetics to NASCAR, Calls for Racial Justice Are Spreading 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The incident at the Charcoal Pit restaurant is the closest thing to “desegregating restaurants.” Analysis | Joe Biden’s shifting recollection on his civil rights activities 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z That same year, he made the claim: “When I was 17 years old, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses of Wilmington, Del.” Biden fact-checked over ‘shifting recollection’ of his past civil rights activities 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Harris slammed him at a debate for his record on mandated busing as a means to desegregate schools. Amid protests, Harris emerges as top contender for Biden's V.P. slot 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z A few months later Mitt Romney's father, George, then the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, worked to use the new law to desegregate the nation. Mitt Romney's support for black lives matters. But the bar should be higher for Democrats 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order desegregating the armed forces. Trump’s False Claim That ‘Nobody Has Ever Done’ More for the Black Community Than He Has 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z "It happened in 1957 at Little Rock Central to desegregate against our racist Democratic governor. It happened in 1968 in Washington D.C., in Baltimore and Chicago. It happened in 1992 in Los Angeles." Tom Cotton on liberals slamming NYT for printing his op-ed: This exposed hypocrisy of 'woke progressive mob' 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Casey, 62, recalled his own experience as an 8-year-old in Kentucky when schools were desegregated, saying he remembers feeling helpless, “as if I was neither seen, nor heard, nor understood.” Pistons coach Casey: 'Let's stop the injustice now' 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z In 1972, weeks after he launched a small-scale voluntary busing program to desegregate a handful of school campuses in Seattle, opponents slashed the tires of 70 district buses in protest. Forbes Bottomly, former schools chief who helped kick-start Seattle’s school integration efforts, dies at 99 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z While Brown laid the ground for desegregating the United States, this country was built on a far more entrenched foundation of white supremacy. The coronavirus has laid bare the reality of America's racial caste system | Malaika Jabali 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Jackson – whose activism began as a student trying to desegregate the public library in his birthplace of Greenville, South Carolina – ran against Biden in the 1988 Democratic primary. Jesse Jackson: 'The gated community does not protect you from the pandemic' 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z This means establishing desegregated and well-funded public education, starting with child care, as a fundamental right. Opinion | I’m Sick of Asking Children to Be Resilient 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “We desegregated this whole county without bloodshed,” Griffin said, while nearby cities had “fighting in the streets.” Ahmaud Arbery case puts spotlight on community’s race legacy 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z His moves to desegregate schools ahead of a federal court order earned him vocal opponents. Forbes Bottomly, former schools chief who helped kick-start Seattle’s school integration efforts, dies at 99 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The law barred federal money for segregated institutions, forcing hundreds of hospitals across the South to desegregate waiting rooms, patient floors and nurseries almost overnight. Along the Mississippi, Obamacare's neglected legacy: civil rights 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z King joined them in October 1960, raising pressure that brought Atlanta’s leaders to negotiate an end to the campaign in exchange for desegregating public places. AP Was There: Martin Luther King Jr. sentenced to chain gang 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Atlanta’s leaders soon buckled as Fulton County’s jails filled, agreeing to desegregate in exchange for ending the boycotts crippling white-owned businesses. Martin Luther King’s traffic ticket changed history’s course 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In 1966, Wallace, having accepted the Vanderbilt offer, was about to desegregate SEC basketball. Column: The Rec Room: Perry Wallace Jr.'s resolve against racism is a story worth reading 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Seattle, on the other hand, became the largest city to voluntarily desegregate its schools just a few years after he left. Forbes Bottomly, former schools chief who helped kick-start Seattle’s school integration efforts, dies at 99 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z His mother was a homemaker and his father a judge who desegregated a Philadelphia swimming pool in the early 1950s. Stanley Sporkin, crusading SEC enforcer and tough-minded U.S. judge, dies at 88 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z She joined the school board in 1967 and was a leader of efforts to desegregate the county public schools through busing and other means. Community deaths 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Their campaign of boycotts and sit-ins, eventually including Martin Luther King Jr., forced white leaders to negotiate with the black students to desegregate stores, theaters, schools and other institutions. 60 years later, ‘An Appeal for Human Rights’ still resonates 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Hundreds of black people were arrested that year, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., before white leaders relented and desegregated Atlanta’s facilities. AP Photo Gallery: Atlanta Student Movement of 1960 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z He also helped to desegregate beaches in Biloxi. Keel laid for research ship named after civil rights leader 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Or about Gen. Joseph A. McNeil, who as a young college student organized the first “sit-in” in the South to desegregate lunchrooms. Editorial Roundup: North Carolina 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z In 1940, she agreed to serve as one of three carefully selected students to desegregate West Virginia University's graduate program. 7 lessons from "Hidden Figures" NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z In the wake of that decision, West Virginia’s governor, Homer Holt, chose to desegregate public graduate schools in his state. Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The landmarked area — five buildings in a corner of the site — includes the former home of plaintiffs in a 1954 Supreme Court case that desegregated D.C. Opinion | Barry Farm’s historic landmark designation was pitted against affordable housing 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The state of black schools in Loudoun County — one of the last corners of the United States to desegregate — mirrors conditions faced by black students throughout the South, experts said. A lost history, recovered: Faded records tell the story of school segregation in Virginia 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s with great pride that I take being the head coach here at Vanderbilt University knowing just the leadership it took to desegregate SEC basketball,” Stackhouse said. Street by Vanderbilt basketball gym named for Perry Wallace 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z But he was poleaxed by Senator Kamala Harris of California in the first Democratic debate in June, when she challenged his past views on desegregated school busing. Why Joe Biden needs ‘a political miracle’ to stay in the race to face Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Sanders’s campaign unveiled a comprehensive education plan in May, calling for increased teacher salaries, the elimination of for-profit charter schools and more funding for efforts to desegregate schools. Bernie Sanders wades into a local education issue, criticizes D.C. decision to close school 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Among his highlights is working with others to desegregate lunch counters, including the one at the bus station. Freedom Riders: Nonviolence won the day in ‘61 against mob 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z In Mobile, she shifted across racial divisions, too, attending a predominantly white school that had been forced to desegregate. N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Prince Edward County, for instance, shut down public schools for several years rather than desegregate. Opinion | The disturbing ‘Second Amendment sanctuary’ trend in Virginia 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z His grandfather had helped desegregate schools in Shreveport, La. Hunting black men to start a ‘race war’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Supporters also suggested that race factored in the punishment of Mayes, who was black and serving less than a decade after President Harry Truman issued an executive order to desegregate the military. 11,000 NY veterans got military honors at burials this year 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The N.F.L. often pats itself on the back by noting that the league desegregated before Major League Baseball, when Kenny Washington and Woody Strode joined the Los Angeles Rams in 1946. The N.F.L.’s Embrace of Black Players Has Always Been Conditional 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z He was instrumental in desegregating the team and the Southwest Conference as coach and athletic director. Hayden Fry, college coach who transformed Iowa football, dies at 90 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “I was that girl,” she pointedly noted about how desegregating Berkeley schools opened opportunity for her. Editorial Roundup: US 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z His efforts helped desegregate Miami’s public golf courses and beaches. This week’s passages 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Biden and his campaign later suggested that Harris’s current position on that issue — support for busing as one of many potential tools to desegregate resistant localities — was the same as his then. Harris faces uphill climb amid questions about who she is 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z In 1948, President Harry Truman signed an order desegregating the armed forces. Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But some also note that Howard took years to desegregate after the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Marches, letters, emotions: School redistricting plan roils a suburban Maryland county 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Using magnets to desegregate schools hadn’t worked elsewhere, the group wrote to the School Board in 1977, and essentially hid segregation within school buildings. Seattle Public Schools leans on history to change its gifted education program. Here’s what the archives show. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order desegregating the military six years before the Brown decision. Perspective | Five myths about the Constitution 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities that received federal funding were desegregated under the watchful eye of inspectors. No room at the top: why are US boardrooms still so white? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z He’s credited with a number of civil rights advances, including helping desegregate Georgia capitol facilities. 1st black Georgia senator elected post-Reconstruction dies 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z She would also leverage federal funding to encourage states to further desegregate their schools. Sen. Elizabeth Warren releases plan to overhaul K-12 education 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z In a June debate, rival Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California confronted him for opposing federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. ACLU slams Joe Biden in South Carolina ad: Does he ‘support rights for all?’ 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Soon, Thomas was staring down hostile whites while using the newly desegregated public library and refusing to sit in the black balcony in the movie house. Review | The contradictory conservatism of Clarence Thomas 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The paratrooper, Needham Mayes, was among the first black servicemen on the base since the executive order to desegregate the armed forces was signed seven years earlier. On His Deathbed, an Ex-Soldier Makes a Final Plea to Clear His Name 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z And that’s the ideology, the cultural context, that prevailed when the major sports in the US were desegregated.” 'We've come so far': how black quarterbacks defied a racist past to become the NFL's future 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Homelessness remains near record levels, and city schools are stills struggling to desegregate — all issues de Blasio considers priorities. After White House bid, back to NYC? Mayor’s zeal questioned 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He startled even some allies by describing as “troublesome” the reasoning behind a 1954 case desegregating public schools in the nation’s capital. Biden Wants to Work With ‘the Other Side.’ This Supreme Court Battle Explains Why. 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z This admissions process is now a flash point in an escalating debate over how to desegregate the nation’s largest school district. Should a Single Test Decide a 4-Year-Old’s Educational Future? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z She chastised him for opposing federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. Kamala Harris proves own worst enemy in enigmatic campaign 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, a task force created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to find ways to desegregate New York City’s school system released a proposal to completely overhaul admission practices in the nation’s largest school district. The Plan to Scrap New York’s Gifted Programs: 5 Takeaways 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The announcement took place on Monday in the nation’s capital at Langston Golf Course, the second racially desegregated golf course in the District of Columbia. Stephen Curry to resurrect Howard University golf program with donation 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Taking over one of the Senate’s great committees at a boyish — for the Senate — age of 44, Mr. Biden had already split with progressives on the issue of busing as a means of desegregating schools. Biden Wants to Work With ‘the Other Side.’ This Supreme Court Battle Explains Why. 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Lee-Davis High School opened in 1959, a time when several Virginia localities were practicing “massive resistance” against the Supreme Court’s order to desegregate schools. NAACP challenges legality of Confederate names on Virginia schools 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z For example: only in 1948 did the US military desegregate, by executive order. 400 years since slavery: a timeline of American history 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It must start desegregating in 2020-21 and complete the effort within five years or face escalating punitive measures. California Editorial Rdp 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z In the court settlement, the district promises to desegregate its system and improve offerings at the district-run school, with a goal of attracting more white and Asian students. Calif. town agrees to desegregate schools after state attorney general’s findings 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Becerra called the settlement the first comprehensive effort to desegregate a California school in five decades. Wealthy San Francisco suburb agrees to desegregate school 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z “I didn’t see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate them.” Better from Biden but Democrats have yet to find 'the one' – which suits Trump 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z He appeared unsteady and befuddled at the first debate of 2020 Democratic hopefuls last month in Miami when Ms. Harris dinged him for opposing busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. Biden comes out swinging in second debate 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Harris hammered Biden in that opening round for opposing federal busing orders issued in the 1970s to desegregate public schools like hers in California. The Latest: Biden, Harris clash over health care plans 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Biden is determined not to repeat befuddled responses like those he gave when Ms. Harris criticized his opposition to busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. Democratic debates ‘last dance’ for 2020 longshots: ‘They’ve got to make their move now’ 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Harris delivered a scathing criticism of Biden’s views from the 1970s on school busing to desegregate schools, and Biden took heavy criticism afterward for his defensive and ineffective response. Factbox: Four moments to watch for as U.S. Democrats debate in Detroit 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Harris gained momentum for her run after confronting Mr. Biden at the Miami debate in June about his opposition to busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. Democrats decry ‘poison of racism,’ urge NAACP to marshal black vote against Trump 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The California senator highlighted his recent comments about working with segregationist senators and his opposition to government-ordered bussing as a tool to desegregate schools. Democratic debates: Biden and Harris will face off again in second round 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The jockeying for the lead followed Ms. Harris‘ break-out performance in the Democrats’ first 2020 debate, where she hit Mr. Biden for opposing busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. Kamala Harris takes lead, Joe Biden fades in California: Poll 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Harris slammed him during the first debate, blasting the segregationist comment and criticizing his opposition to federal busing orders to desegregate public schools during the same era. Biden campaigns as Obamacare’s top defender 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Board of Education in 1954 that schools must be desegregated, Howard County was so resistant that it took more than a decade for the black-only school, Harriet Tubman, to close its doors. They covered their school in racist slurs 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z It seems like the paper’s role during the Second World War was interesting, and that the issue of desegregating the military was important. The Exemplary Legacy of the Chicago Defender 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “Delaware became one of the states with the most desegregated schools in country,” Raffel said. On race, Joe Biden’s choices in Delaware years ago haunt his White House bid today 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Harris says busing should be one of many tools to desegregate schools, but would not need to be federally mandated unless local officials were blocking integration. Segregation has soared in America’s schools as federal leaders largely looked away 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Suddenly, Washington had powerful tools to pressure schools to desegregate. Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing is a relic few would revive 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z And she criticized his stance against federally mandated busing to desegregate schools. Kamala Harris raises $12M in 2nd quarter, far behind hauls of top rivals 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Harris used the same tactic in the debate to hit Mr. Biden for his opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s. Team Trump schemes to sever Biden from Obama: ‘That’s the ticket in terms of getting him’ 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z She says she thinks of busing as “being in the toolbox” of way to desegregate schools. Harris says busing should be considered, not mandated 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z He says he supported court-ordered busing when districts refused to desegregate. Segregation has soared in America’s schools as federal leaders largely looked away 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Harris attracted attention after she confronted former Vice President Joseph R. Biden during the second night of the debate about his past positions on bussing to desegregate schools. Kamala Harris, Julian Castro gain support among Hispanics after debate: Poll 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The same poll also showed Ms. Harris jumping to third place after confronting Mr. Biden in the debate about his opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate schools in the 1970s. Buttigieg, Harris rise in polls after Democratic debates 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z She pressed Mr. Biden to apologize for his opposition and recalled the small role she played in desegregating schools in Berkeley, California. Team Trump schemes to sever Biden from Obama: ‘That’s the ticket in terms of getting him’ 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Harris says “there are a lot of issues” involved in desegregating America’s schools, including changing the way public schools are funded and increasing teacher pay. Harris says busing should be considered, not mandated 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The jurist’s 1970 decision to order Pasadena Unified School District to desegregate its schools was the first federal case of its kind on the West Coast, and one of the few outside the Deep South. Manuel L. Real, judge who helped desegregate Southern California schools, dies at 95 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z But when Harris was asked by a reporter on Sunday if she supported the return of busing to desegregate schools, she said she did. Kamala Harris is right about busing: It worked, and should be used to end segregation today 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In 1964, the school board voted to desegregate its junior high schools. School busing in Berkeley during Kamala Harris’ childhood was both voluntary and volatile 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z In 1970, the city’s Human Relations Commission was established, and the city began busing students across the city in an effort to desegregate the schools. Lessons linger from Harrisburg’s 1969 racial turmoil 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z The crowd fell silent as she then recounted being bused to a desegregated school as a child. Female candidates challenge electability question in debates 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z As the practice of bussing expanded, with court orders for cities to desegregate schools, more massive protests took place across the country, with notably violent ones in Boston, Massachusetts, Pontiac, Michigan, and Louisville, Kentucky. What is 'bussing' that sparked Biden row? 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z "We need to put every effort, including busing, into play to desegregate the schools," she said, adding that busing was "one small piece of the very big piece." Kamala Harris is right about busing: It worked, and should be used to end segregation today 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The school board didn’t agree to desegregate all 14 elementary schools until the beginning of the 1968 school year, Burress confirmed. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in 2007 specifically struck down magnet-school programs in Seattle and Louisville, Ky. Seattle was never under a court order to desegregate; Louisville's court order was dissolved. School busing and race tore L.A. apart in the 1970s. Now, Kamala Harris is reviving debate 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z But she criticized him for recently “defending segregationists” in the Senate and for once opposing mandatory busing of students to desegregated public schools. Harris gets personal, delivers civil rights blow on Biden 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Eastland was a vocal white supremacist who described black people as inferior and fought against efforts to desegregate the South. New York mayor demands apology from presidential rival Biden over... 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In her window this past week, she made a point to display a picture book about Ruby Bridges, the first black child to desegregate a New Orleans public school. Two Parisian bookstores, side by side, are waging a culture war 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z In May of that year, over 1,000 people marched in efforts to desegregate movie theaters and restaurants. Polio hospital that became a jail to get historical marker 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Board of Education, the Court declared that segregation was unconstitutional in public schools, and then, in a follow-up ruling, ordered all federal, state, and local districts to desegregate. The Right to a Stable Climate Is the Constitutional Question of the Twenty-first Century 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Westminster legal case, which desegregated schools in the Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and El Modena school districts. On D-day, an O.C. vet’s son calls attention to Mexican Americans who served in WWII 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z She said the military resisted efforts to desegregate as it ramped up for World War II. Instead they kept separate units and separate facilities for black and white troops. Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of black troops on D-Day 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Before that, it was used in 1957 by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower to desegregate schools in the south. 'Fox & Friends' hosts press WH spokesman on whether Insurrection Act will be used to stem border crisis 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The college did not enroll a black student until 1966 — more than a decade after public schools were desegregated in Brown v. ‘I Serve as a Stepping Stone’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Historians say the government initially planned to discharge the black Marines after World War II. But in 1948, President Harry Truman issued an order fully desegregating the U.S. armed forces. A separate war: Pioneering black Marines endured, prevailed 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Partly because of his father’s efforts, Frederick Aguirre attended desegregated schools. On D-day, an O.C. vet’s son calls attention to Mexican Americans who served in WWII 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z They were the people sitting at lunch counter protests and walking into desegregated schools with a police escort. Perspective | Time’s up, baby boomers. It’s Gen X’s turn now. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z He opposed busing to desegregate schools in the 1970s. Joe Biden 2020 campaign hit by liberal groups as out of step 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Glanville, who gave his son the middle name of Robinson, came from parents who wrote poetry and were educators in North Carolina, in a city that during the 1960s was voluntarily desegregated. Jackie Robinson's life continues to inspire ESPN's Doug Glanville 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z And what was happening in Birmingham that gets lost in this is that city schools were being desegregated for the first time. Sen. Doug Jones on the lessons of Birmingham 1963, Christchurch 2019 and Donald Trump 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The weekly the Carolina Peacemaker included coverage of efforts to desegregate schools and a battle to establish a district system that would make it easier for local black people to be elected to political office. This week’s passages 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The newspaper, founded in 1967, included coverage of efforts to desegregate schools and a battle to establish a district system that would make it easier for local black people to be elected to political office. Founder of black North Carolina newspaper dies at 88 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, he opposed busing to desegregate schools. Joe Biden bears the heavy burden of history 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z As a young man, Russo said, Biden fought to desegregate a movie theater in Delaware, and worked as the only white employee at a largely black swimming pool. Biden’s tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today’s Democratic Party 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A teacher who helped desegregate New York’s public transit. Seeking to Fix a Gender Gap in Public Art, New York Will Add 4 Statues of Women 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z HUD suspended a 2015 rule requiring communities receiving billions in federal aid to draft plans to desegregate their communities or risk losing federal funds. The ’heartbreaking‘ decrease in black homeownership 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z He was involved in desegregating Langston Golf Course in Washington, D.C., and created the Lee Elder Scholarship Fun to offer financial aid to low-income men and women to attend college. Lee Elder makes more golf history by winning the USGA's highest honor - Golf Digest 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Some on campus felt Northam’s presence would distract from a commemoration of the “Richmond 34,” students arrested in 1960 for trying to desegregate a lunch counter. Al Gore, civil rights leader William Barber call on Northam to seek forgiveness through action 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Against that backdrop, Biden, a rising political star, took aim at a 1974 court order directing Delaware to submit plans for desegregating Wilmington-area schools — an edict that was highly unpopular with many of his constituents. Biden’s tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today’s Democratic Party 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Board of Education -- the Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools -- was correct during her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Trump's replacement for Kavanaugh won't talk about Brown v. Board of Ed decision 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Soon after it was desegregated, he said, an opposing team hung Smith in effigy when his school visited. Lee Smith ‘still in awe’ after touring Baseball Hall of Fame 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Supreme Court ordered that schools be desegregated, Virginia employed a strategy of “massive resistance” and outright refused to allow black and white children to be schooled together. Anger and sadness as African Americans in Virginia consider Northam’s fate 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “Ruby Bridges,” about the first African American child to desegregate an all-white school in the South, was made for Disney, and “The Killing Yard,” about the 1971 Attica prison uprising, was a Showtime original. 30 years after making history with 'A Dry White Season,' director Euzhan Palcy looks back 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “My elementary school class,” at Thousand Oaks Elementary School, “was only the second class in my city to be desegregated through busing,” Harris writes in her new book, “The Truths We Hold.” Kamala Harris’s Choices 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Board of Education, the organization, at Byrd’s personal direction, undertook a program of “massive resistance” — opposing efforts to desegregate Virginia’s schools by any means available. Opinion | Let’s set the record straight on Capitol Square 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z King’s birth home, the church where he delivered his first sermon, one of the South’s first desegregated firehouses and the park’s Visitor’s Center rely on federal funding. Despite government shutdown, Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Park to open thanks to Delta donation 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect black students when schools were desegregated, launched the interstate highway system and balanced the budget with a highly progressive income tax. Republicans must return to true roots 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Defenders of Carson, who as a presidential candidate decried a federal effort to desegregate American neighborhoods as “failed socialist experiments,” argue he is not retreating from the agency’s civil rights mission. Ben Carson’s HUD dials back investigations into housing discrimination 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Board of Education ruling, schools across the US are quietly being resegregated — and many were never fully desegregated to start with. Yes, America's schools are still segregated 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z More than 60 years later, America’s public schools, both North and South, have never been fully desegregated, and have actually been re-segregating in recent decades. Russian interference and American racism: From the Cold War to the 2016 election 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Last week, the Jackson Free Press, a local alternative newspaper, reported that Hyde-Smith attended a “segregation academy,” a private school founded by white parents to avoid having their children enroll in desegregated schools. Will Cindy Hyde-Smith's 'public hanging' comment make a difference in Mississippi's Senate runoff? 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z President Harry S. Truman’s executive order desegregating the military is a magnificent example of how leaders can help speed up institutional change. Good riddance 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z A few years later, in the first-ever attempt to desegregate a state’s entire higher education system, the federal government intervened. A College Degree, More than Fifteen Years in the Making 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z He compared the move to President Harry S. Truman’s 1948 executive order to desegregate the military, which tapped into “previously excluded reservoirs of human talent, especially for leadership.” Fort Leonard Wood leader encourages more women in military 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z School systems facing court orders to desegregate opened Montessori magnet programs to draw white children to predominantly African American schools. Montessori, long a favorite for wealthy families, struggles to expand its reach 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Still, Clark believes Nash’s efforts helped push the federal government to desegregate National Airport in December 1948. Perspective | Varied blasts from the past at this weekend’s annual D.C. History Conference 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z While living in Alexandria, Va., in the 1960s and 1970s, he worked on efforts to desegregate housing and education. Community deaths 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z In 1977, before most schools in the South desegregated, more than a third of black college graduates earned their bachelor’s degrees at H.B.C.U.s. A College Degree, More than Fifteen Years in the Making 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z While living in Alexandria, Va., in the 1960s and 1970s, he worked on various efforts to desegregate housing and education. Community deaths 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Once the military was desegregated, opportunities abounded for African-Americans. Tuskegee Airmen memorial at Indiana airport draws visitors 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Board of Education, also led a campaign to desegregate restaurants in Washington. ‘The end of our journey’: A historic black church closes its doors in a changing D.C. 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Harris spoke about what she had gained, arriving as a kindergartener in Berkeley’s newly desegregated schools, from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Where Are Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings Headed? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Some white parents kept their children home from newly desegregated schools. Richard Carranza Is Talking About Integration. Can He Make It Happen? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, said he will ask Judge Kavanaugh, as he does all judicial nominees, his thoughts on whether Supreme Court precedent desegregating schools and upholding abortion rights were accurately decided. Brett Kavanaugh to face questions on executive power, sexual harassment 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z That fall, when President Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops into Little Rock to enforce a court order desegregating Central High School, Russell compared them to Nazi “Storm Troopers.” Opinion | McCain might be the right name for a Senate building. Russell sure isn’t. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Or the Supreme Court, which helped black kids desegregate the nation’s schools? What does Mayor Bowser want for Miranda Bowser? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z At issue was a 1983 consent decree aimed at desegregating San Francisco schools, the result of a lawsuit filed by the local NAACP. Race-based school criteria roils Asian-Americans - again 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Board of Education, their historic decision to desegregate public schools, and in a follow-up ruling in 1955, they explicitly allowed school districts to proceed slowly rather than ordering precipitous change. When the Supreme Court Lurches Right 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z A 1960 sit-in at the segregated counter, led by four black college students, helped catalyze a movement that desegregated restaurants across the South. A Leader in the War on Poverty Opens a New Front: Pollution 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The rule required more than 1,200 communities receiving billions of federal housing dollars to draft plans to desegregate their communities — or risk losing federal funds. Analysis | Federal judge dismisses lawsuit accusing HUD Secretary Ben Carson of dismantling Obama-era fair housing law 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Gross, 56, moved to Boston from a farm community in Maryland at age 12 as the forced busing of students to desegregate schools sparked violent unrest and trained the nation’s eyes on the city. Boston readies to install first black police commissioner 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Board of Education desegregated public schools in 1955, the South saw the rise of "segregation academies" — private, often Christian schools that excluded black students or put restrictions on their attendance. Jeff Sessions’ ludicrous “religious liberty” task force is the real threat to liberty 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The fireworks continued when the court allowed busing to desegregate schools and issued a series of rulings that shielded criminal suspects from abusive police practices. When the Supreme Court Lurches Right 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z That same day, he also signed an executive order to desegregate the federal workforce. How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The schools here did not desegregate until 1970, 15 years after the supreme court declared segregation unconstitutional in Brown v Board, and only did so under threat of a federal court order. The radical sheriff giving offenders a chance 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Decades after his lawsuit successfully helped desegregate the city’s schools, he finds it hard to identify with the activists of today, who shout at public meetings and focus on removing statues. Year After White Nationalist Rally, Charlottesville Is in Tug of War Over Its Soul 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z And the court responded by desegregating public schools, upholding the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act and legalizing interracial marriage, to name a few landmark decisions. Opinion | Does Brett Kavanaugh Spell the End of Voting Rights? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z American neighborhoods are desegregating slightly, but the situation is worse for children. The quiet death of racial progress 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Truman’s evolution — from a farm boy raised by Confederate sympathizers to U.S. president, who on July 26, 1948, signed the order to desegregate the armed forces — can be mapped through his letters and memoirs. How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z California’s Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that Los Angeles Unified School District must work to desegregate its schools in Crawford vs. Paul Egly, judge who oversaw Los Angeles school integration, dies at 97 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Schools were desegregated though a Supreme Court decision, which had to be implemented with the help of the National Guard. Does American ‘Tribalism’ End in a Compromise, or a Fight? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But he kept abreast of goings-on in Seattle, still rueful that his work to desegregate the city’s schools remains, to this day, unfinished. David Moberly, who led Seattle schools through desegregation, dies at 89 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Indeed, Americana’s well-intentioned project of desegregating American roots genres continues to be largely done by its leading, commercially viable white male troubadours. 'They put us in a little box': how racial tensions shape modern soul music 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s true that the military was segregated prior to World War I and remained so until President Harry Truman desegregated it in 1948. South Carolina editorial roundup 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The ICC gave states and bus companies six weeks to desegregate buses as well as bus station waiting rooms and restrooms. Dovey Johnson Roundtree, defense lawyer and civil rights warrior, dies at 104 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z But in the Army as a whole, Jim Crow was alive and well: The United States military would be desegregated only in 1948, by executive order of President Harry S. Truman. Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Barrier-Breaking Lawyer, Dies at 104 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z His family settled in Arlington, and though Shallal’s junior high was the first public school in Virginia to desegregate, he recalls deep divisions between its white students and black ones. What Starbucks could learn from this Washington restaurateur about race at work 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The 2015 rule required more than 1,200 communities receiving billions of federal housing dollars to draft plans to desegregate their communities — or risk losing federal funds. HUD Secretary Ben Carson to be sued for suspending Obama-era fair-housing rule 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Board of Education, it ordered schools to desegregate. First Test for New York Chancellor: A Middle School Desegregation Plan 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z In part, his anger was driven by the fact that his father, a laborer who once sued to desegregate the local school district in Arkansas, was nearly the victim of racial violence. James H. Cone, founder of black liberation theology, dies at 79 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court decision desegregating D.C. public schools was Bolling v. Review | When D.C. burned in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Lancaster attorney Robert Pfannebecker, who represented those seeking to desegregate Lancaster swimming pools in the early 1960s, told Wright that King was becoming interested in other issues at the time of his assassination. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z First, Jackson said, he would tell King that state legislatures have been desegregated, that industry has spread across the South, and that multiracial relationships are now common, even in the Deep South. 50 years after King's death, struggles remain for African Americans in Memphis 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z King realized his movement’s goals could no longer be as clear as desegregating lunch counters or gaining the right to register to vote. Opinion | King was unpopular and demoralized before he died. He pressed on anyway. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z And yet it was Clark who, in the decade’s “year of revolt”, found herself at the centre of a media controversy involving race, censorship and endemic bigotry in a newly desegregated yet depressingly divided US. How Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte fought racism arm in arm 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Public places such as restrooms and lunch counters are desegregated. MLK tackled many issues in his lifetime. Where are we now? 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Together, these young adults desegregated schools in the Jim Crow South, challenged racism during Freedom Rides, and pushed forward voter rights and civil rights legislation. Youth in Revolt: Five Powerful Movements Fueled by Young Activists 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s a good fit for a school founded as an integrated institution in the 1960s as Maryland’s other universities were just desegregating. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z I want our neighborhoods to be integrated, and I appreciate that the government is doing something, for a change, to desegregate them. Why one story explaining racial segregation in America is overlooked 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The new Civil Rights Trail also coincides with the 60th anniversary of nine black students desegregating Little Rock Central High School under the protection of federal troops authorized by President Dwight Eisenhower. New US Civil Rights Trail includes 6 Little Rock locations 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z He eventually signed a consent decree requiring him to desegregate his properties, although he claimed victory because it included no financial penalty. A President Who Fans, Rather Than Douses, the Nation’s Racial Fires 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The Central Library, dedicated in 1903, was the District’s first desegregated public building. Opinion | What truths about us will future libraries tell? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z While declaring diversity a top priority last year, Ms. Fariña said she wanted to see plans to desegregate the schools bubble up “organically” rather than be mandated from above. Carmen Fariña, Head of New York City Schools, Is Retiring 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s considered to be one of the first schools in the state to voluntarily desegregate. Historic preservation group wants to save Orange County landmarks 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The barriers were so ingrained that just last year, a federal court ordered the city to desegregate its schools. An Aspiring Performer Steps Back From the Edge 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Magnet schools emerged in the 1970s as a way to desegregate U.S. public schools by offering specialized courses. Iowa specialty schools see spike in transfer students 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Truman also desegregated the armed forces, proposed domestic economic recovery programs and instituted the Marshall Plan to reconstruct war-torn Europe and fend off communism. Opinion | What truths about us will future libraries tell? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The couple raised two boys in desegregated public schools. The lure of the steady physician: Is Northam’s résumé enough in the age of Trump? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Ray Charles helped to desegregate concert halls; Jackie Robinson integrated an entire sports league. Opinion | Famous Athletes Have Always Led the Way 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z In a 2015 study, the sociologist Michael Biggs and I found that sit-ins could prompt business owners even in neighboring cities to desegregate, because they feared the costs of facing future protesters. Opinion | How Protest Works 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Gray recalled the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 that lasted for more than a year before the Alabama city agreed to desegregate its transit system. New wave of protest leaders emerged after Ferguson 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The 19th-century educator and activist fought for a better education for black students, led efforts to desegregate the city’s street cars and pushed for equal voting rights - all before he was killed at age 32. Philadelphia to honor black activist with City Hall statue 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The 19th-century educator and activist fought for a better education for black students, led efforts to desegregate the city’s street cars and pushed for equal voting rights — all before he was killed at age 32. Philadelphia to honor black activist with City Hall statue 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z At Sherman Oaks, Price attributes that staying power in part to the magnet school’s mission to desegregate. These 10 L.A. high schools are the best at getting their graduates to college 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z His open defiance of federal law, which many compared to former Alabama governor George Wallace’s refusal to desegregate the state’s schools, led to Moore being removed from his judiciary position. Christian supremacist Roy Moore has gone from pariah to conservative hero 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The festivities opened with an address by the present headmaster, G.Thomas Battle Jr., to a few hundred in the school’s new theater, during which Battle saluted Bill and Marvin for desegregating the school. ‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional, the Arlington school board moved to begin desegregating its schools. Martha Ann Miller, who taught at one of Virginia’s first desegregated public schools, dies at 106 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z As a native Californian I had grown up in desegregated schools and attending the Riverside and Berkeley campuses of the University of California where I met students across national and racial lines. The Resegregation of Jefferson County 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Earl Warren, the chief justice who presided over an array of major decisions, including the order to desegregate schools, called it ‘‘the most important case of my tenure on the court.’’ The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z His uncle, J. P. Evans, was a scratch, or expert, player who in the early 1970s helped desegregate the public course where his nephew would learn the game 15 years later. A Golf Center Grows in Harlem 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z A high point came on the baseball field, where Bill attracted the attention of white boys at another school, the prestigious Woodberry Forest, which had previously refused the foundation’s request to desegregate. ‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The United States military did the same with racial equality when it began to desegregate in the late 1940s. The Showdown Over How We Define Fringe Views in America 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z And Jefferson County had recently hired a new superintendent who was determined to honor the mandate to desegregate. The Resegregation of Jefferson County 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The civil rights sit-in movement was born, and five months later, Woolworth’s desegregated. The Moral Voice of Corporate America 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Board of Education in 1954, Virginia Governor Harry Byrd immediately called for “Massive Resistance,” and Virginia, claiming the mantle of states’ rights that others have used to make their racism, declared they would not desegregate. Racism Never Died in Virginia 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Barrett said the song was inspired partly by his upbringing as a child of the civil rights era and as a Boston resident as the city bused students to desegregate schools. Mighty Mighty Bosstones on ‘Let’s Face It’ becoming an anti-racism anthem 20 years after its release. 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Nixon, meanwhile, who had not yet been tainted by Watergate, was experiencing a wave of popularity for vowing to get America out of Vietnam and to desegregate schools. The Story Behind That Famous Photo of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Like everywhere else in Alabama, Jefferson County resisted desegregation with all it had: By 1965 not a single county school had desegregated. The Resegregation of Jefferson County 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z This is a true misfortune for the NAACP, the leading voice that fought tooth and nail to desegregate America’s public schools and won in the historic Brown v. NAACP stumbles on education 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z In 1968, the Courts again ruled Virginia had not desegregated, and more plans including busing were instituted. Racism Never Died in Virginia 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In a statement, Pelosi pointed out Trump’s decision came on the same day in 1948 that President Harry S. Truman signed the executive order desegregating the military. The Latest: White House won’t say fate of transgender troops 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z He explained how attempts to desegregate schooling in the American south could be frustrated by setting up a network of state-sponsored private schools. A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy | George Monbiot 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z And that plan worked as intended: By 1968, just 3 percent of the Jefferson County school district had desegregated. The Resegregation of Jefferson County 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Sure, there were communities above and below the Mason-Dixon line that didn’t want to desegregate their public schools, and the busing programs agitated that problem. NAACP stumbles on education 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, he led the campaign to desegregate Atlanta’s public transportation. WNBA President Lisa Borders views job as platform that can empower women 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z In the ’70s and ’80s, rising crime helped fuel an exodus of black families and businesses to Houston’s newly desegregated suburbs. In Houston, an Original Juneteenth Celebration Site Reborn 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z There was Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier years before schools were desegregated. Through good times and bad, baseball endures. After the congressional shooting, can it help bridge political divides? 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z "The student populations of the schools in the Gardendale zone are reasonably desegregated..." The Resegregation of Jefferson County 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z For decades, the Department of Justice has used court-enforced agreements to protect civil rights, successfully desegregating school systems, reforming police departments, ensuring access for the disabled and defending the religious. Trump Administration quietly rolls back Civil Rights efforts across federal government 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Among the last schools to desegregate were the five universities that now barred undocumented students. An Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But the party afterward was brief, Cissy Marshall said, because he knew the fight to desegregate schools was just beginnings. “ How crucial are historically black colleges? Just look at who’s graduated from them. 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Named after the steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the library opened in 1903 as the first desegregated building in Washington. DC gets first look at new Apple store in Carnegie Library 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Boston is the city where in the 1970s white residents violently resisted efforts to desegregate local schools by busing in black students. After the latest racist incidents at Fenway Park, Boston confronts an ugly reputation 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The family launched the first legal battle to desegregate Raleigh public schools when they sued the Raleigh City School Board to allow their son to attend Broughton. Students want Raleigh school named for integration fighters 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Hogan campaigned as an old-guard champion of conservative causes, gaining crossover support from conservative Democrats for, among other things, his opposition to forced busing to desegregate the county’s schools. Lawrence J. Hogan Sr., Md. Republican who called for Nixon’s impeachment, dies at 88 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z “Can you imagine if we had waited for elected officials to desegregate lunch counters and to get the right to vote in the South? 50-some years later I think we’d still be waiting.” Diane Nash: 'Non-violent protest was the most important invention of the 20th century' 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z His father was a journalist and his mother was the first black national president of the Y.W.C.A.; she helped desegregate the organization in the 1960s. Roger Wilkins, Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 85 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z That building was the high school for the area’s black residents until it was desegregated in the 1960s. EXCHANGE: Village is full of African-American black history 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Over time, they watched as a once-thriving neighborhood on Rosemary Avenue succumbed to the new, desegregated economic reality. Nearly 50 years after first visit, Dusty Baker returns to a different town but familiar faces 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The momentous arrival of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The nonviolent movement that helped desegregate the city. Why you should travel to Birmingham 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Three weeks later, the city’s business owners had agreed to voluntarily desegregate lunch counters, and many cited Mayor West’s answer to Nash in their explanation of why. Diane Nash: 'Non-violent protest was the most important invention of the 20th century' 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most high-profile example in modern times came in September 1957 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to help desegregate Central High School. Does Trump have the authority to 'send in the feds' to Chicago? 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Brown is identifying African-Americans like herself who were the first to desegregate white schools for her “Somebody Had To Do It” project. SC State to mark 49th anniversary of Orangeburg Massacre 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z |
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