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Prior to World War II, most public schools in the country were de jure or de facto segregated. All Southern states had Jim Crow Laws mandating racial segregation of schools. . Northern states and some border states were primarily white (in 1940, the populations of Detroit and Chicago were more than 90% white) and existing black populations were concentrated in urban ghettos partly as the ...
The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a series of racial protests and riots that brought national attention, particularly from ...
Begun in 1966, it is a national model for the few other voluntary desegregation busing programs operating in the early decades of the 21st century. [1] The program enrolls Boston resident students in Kindergarten through 12th grade into available seats in suburban public schools.
A state Court of Appeals judge has upheld a 2022 ruling in the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court that found public school districts are not required to bus students to religious or other ...
LaRoy Morton, a cafeteria manager at Githens Middle School, center, and others protest outside the Durham Public Schools administrative building in Durham, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.
In the latest saga of Jefferson County Public Schools' busing debacle, drivers took a stand against their working conditions, orchestrating a sickout for two days that resulted in dozens of ...
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.
Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974), was a significant United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit. [1] It concerned the plans to integrate public schools in the United States following the Brown v.