school integration

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/20/2021
  

  How White Americans’ Refusal to Accept Busing has Kept Schools Segregated

  by Matthew D. Lassiter

  The legal distinction between "de facto" and "de jure" segregation has always been a convenient fiction allowing the perpetuation of segregation by obscuring the role of government in creating and sustaining a racially discriminatory housing market. 

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• 2/28/2021
  

  George Shultz: The Last Progressive

  by Ron Schatz

  "A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans, George Shultz was the last old-fashioned Progressive."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/7/2020
  

  60 Years Later, Ruby Bridges Tells Her Story In 'This Is Your Time'

  Ruby Bridges, whose integration of New Orleans Schools in 1960 was captured by Norman Rockwell, has written a children's history book about her experiences. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/29/2020
  

  The Persistence of Segregation in South Carolina

  The Supreme Court's artful directive to desegregate with "all deliberate speed" invited many school districts to do so as slowly as possible. Historian Millicent Brown was the first Black student to integrate a white high school in Charleston, South Carolina and has researched a book about the experiences of similar students. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  The Garbage Troop: Segregation, Primatology, and Republican Rhetoric

  by Guy Lancaster

  Donald Trump and his Republican Party are not afraid that Joe Biden’s election will destroy America. They’re afraid that it won’t. 

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  6/14/2020
  

  Edith White, World War II ‘Code Girl’ and Norfolk Academy Librarian who Fought Massive Resistance, Dies at 96

  Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  The Demise of the Great Education Saviors

  by Kevin Carey

  Charter schools and testing were supposed to right historic wrongs. Now they’ve run out of political steam. What happened?