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"Mexican-Americans and the Desegregation of Schools in the Southwest". Houston Law Review. 8. San Miguel, Guadalupe (2005). Brown Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1585441155. Strauss, Emily E. (2014). Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton ...
As of 2005, the proportion of Black students at schools with a White majority was at "a level lower than in any year since 1968". [17] Some critics of school desegregation have argued that court-enforced desegregation efforts of the 1960s were either unnecessary or self-defeating, ultimately resulting in White flight from cities
Latimer for immediate desegregation of Atlanta's schools and instead requested that the General Assembly follow the path outlined in the Sibley Commission's majority report and repeal their massive resistance laws, setting a deadline for Atlanta school desegregation for May 1, 1969, [201] before the fall semester began. [202]
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A majority-Black Mississippi school district received a judge's approval Tuesday to shed federal supervision in a decades-old desegregation lawsuit that included a 2013 order to move away from ...
For example, in 1960, a group of white women led by Rosa Keller and Gladys Kahn formed a protest assembly called Save Our Schools (SOS) to keep schools open under desegregation. [3] This party grew up to 1500 members, and effectively produced newsletters, gained support of local officials, and advertised in all parts of the media to encourage ...
The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell that is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [2] It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
A little more than a month after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown, on June 26, 1954, [note 1] Senator Byrd vowed to stop integration attempts in Virginia's schools. By the end of that summer, Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a member of the Byrd Organization, had appointed a Commission on Public Education, consisting of 32 white Democrats and chaired by Virginia Senator Garland "Peck" Gray of ...