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An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools.
In 1960, U.S. marshals were needed to escort Ruby Bridges to and from school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as she broke the State of Louisiana's segregation rules. School segregation in the United States was the segregation of students in educational facilities based on their race and ethnicity. While not prohibited from having or attending ...
Carl L. Bankston and Stephen J. Caldas, in their books A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (2002) and Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation (2005), argued that continuing racial inequality in the larger American society had undermined efforts to force schools to desegregate. [19]
Ruby Bridges, who desegregated New Orleans schools as a 6-year-old in 1960, shares why it's important for kids today to learn and understand her story.
KC tried to prove increased funding would equal better educational outcomes. That hasn’t happened. | Opinion
In 2007, the United States Mint made available the Little Rock Central High School Desegregation silver dollar, a commemorative coin to "recognize and pay tribute to the strength, the determination and the courage displayed by African-American high school students in the fall of 1957." The obverse depicts students accompanied by a soldier, with ...
After desegregation ended in Omaha, Nebraska in 1999, [53] the Omaha Public Schools proposed incorporating some suburban districts within city limits to enlarge its school-system catchment area. It wanted to create a "one tax, one school" system that would also allow it to create magnet programs to increase diversity in now predominantly white ...
In honor of Black History Month, visit the campuses in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Topeka, Kansas, that tell the story of school desegregation.