Although in many classrooms integration is only token, the community has accepted 1,850 Negro students—about 23% of the city’s Negro children—into previously all-white schools. Faculty ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

It illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation ... a federal desegregation order. Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools ...

The Huntsville City Schools district is seeking partial release from its federal court desegregation order. The district will ...

After the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandated desegregation of public schools, Louisiana and many Southern states passed laws to close schools facing racial integration.

The enrollment of the four African-American seventh graders made them the first children of color to integrate an all-white public school in Virginia. "That was just a step toward getting where we ...

Racial segregation in Northern schools was not as overt, she says. The High Court’s 5-4 decision overturned a ruling by a federal judge who had ordered the desegregation of Detroit’s public ...