Desegregation
A process whereby policies and practices of racial segregation are undone through legislative action, social change, school reorganization, and educational programs.
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There were many reasons for the uproar the desegregation of schools in the 1950's caused in America. After the civil war, 1863, black slaves were to be freed but a series of `Jim Crow Laws' were legal...
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The Post-World War II era was a crucial time in American history during which myriad attempts to desegregate blacks and whites in various aspects of life, such as in education and transportation, actu...
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The desegregation of public schooling was a positive step to the desegregation of all areas of life for the African Americans. It was the first step out of conflict that had been evident between the A...
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Sundays at the evangelical Grace Chapel megachurch look like the American ideal of race relations: African-American, Haitian, white, Chinese and Korean families sing along with a white, guitar-play...
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In the first three decades after the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional for black and white children to attend separate public schools, children of different races and background were moved...
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Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and r...
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A 1946 court ruling that helped pave the way for the nation's school desegregation will be commemorated Friday with a new U.S. postage stamp."This stamp captures the vision and inspiration of a gro...
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A federal judge has ended a 25-year-old desegregation case against Alabama, ruling that vestiges of racial disparities in the state's higher education system have been eliminated.U.S. District Judg...
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National Park Service Ranger Spirit Trickey feels a special connection when directing tourists down the sidewalk to Little Rock Central High School. Her mother made the same journey 50 years ago as...
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Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision more than a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition ...
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Significant decisions by the Supreme Court on the racial makeup of schools:1954 _ Brown v. Board of Education: Ruling unanimously that racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional, sayin...
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The site of a munitions explosion that crippled the main West Coast port on the Pacific during World War II and killed 320 people _ the majority of them black sailors _ may become part of the Natio...
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Desegregation
Desegregation of Schools in the United States
Megachurches desegregate worship
