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  2. New York City school boycott - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted five months after the New York City school boycott, included a loophole that allowed school segregation to continue in major northern cities including New York City, Boston, Chicago and Detroit. [4] As of 2018, New York City continues to have the most segregated schools in the country. [9]

  3. 1968 New York City teachers' strike - Wikipedia

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    The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.

  4. School integration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195351675. Kluger, Richard (2011). Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307546081. Lomotey, Kofi, ed. (2010). Encyclopedia of African American Education. Los Angeles: SAGE. ISBN ...

  5. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Initially, Catholic schools in the South generally followed the pattern of segregation in public schools, sometimes enforced by law. However, most Catholic dioceses began moving ahead of public schools to desegregate. Prior to the desegregation of public schools, St. Louis was the first city to desegregate its Catholic schools in 1947. [35]

  6. Desegregation busing - Wikipedia

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    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. ISBN 0-394-41150-1. McAndrews, Lawrence J. "Missing the bus: Gerald Ford and school desegregation." Presidential Studies Quarterly 27.4 (1997): 791–804 Online. Rubin Lillian B., Busing and Backlash: White Against White in an Urban School District. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1972.

  7. Storyteller to dramatize the historical desegregation of Oak ...

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    This desegregation of two Oak Ridge schools by 85 African-American youths who had attended the Scarboro School preceded the more famous school desegregation cases: the "Clinton 12" at Clinton High ...

  8. Oprah highlights Kamala Harris’ desegregation of school in ...

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    But it was Winfrey’s tribute to Tessie Prevost Williams, who, as a young Black girl in 1960, desegregated her public school in New Orleans under dangerous threats, that made her endorsement of ...

  9. 50 years after SCOTUS made a decision in Detroit ... - AOL

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    In 1970, Detroit's school board passed a voluntary desegregation plan of the city's high schools, which was met with opposition from white families, sparking a walkout of white students, according ...