Desegregation

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Trump Administration, desegregation, American schools, theGrio.com
May 2, 2025
The end of the 1966 legal agreement with Plaquemines Parish schools was announced Tuesday, April 29.
August 22, 2024
In Florida's panhandle, the Madison County School District is consolidating its last three stand-alone elementary schools into one campus.
June 2, 2023
There are 32 school districts in Mississippi still under federal desegregation orders, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division's…
July 8, 2022
This week, the Justice Department announced a desegregation case settlement with the Madison County School Board in north Alabama.
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November 24, 2020
Ruby Bridges, part of the historic fight for school desegregation, reacts to an image of Kamala Harris walking with her…
November 11, 2020
In 1960, Lucille Bridges walked her then-6-year-old daughter past racist crowds to became the first Black student at her all-white…
Linda Brown thegrio.com
March 26, 2018
Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck…
August 17, 2015
The civil rights community has lost one of its greatest champions and elder statesmen with the passing of Julian Bond...
July 4, 2014
OPINION - On this Independence Day—as we celebrate the struggles that were fought and the sacrifices that were made in…
May 17, 2014
(AP) - Obama met Friday in the White House East Room with families of the plaintiffs, lead attorneys Jack Greenberg…
January 15, 2014
OPINION - Ever since the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Little Rock, Arkansas has been…
January 14, 2014
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas can stop making payments in one of the nation's most historic desegregation efforts, a…
November 22, 2013
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge gave preliminary approval Friday to a proposed settlement that would bring an…
October 17, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The University of Alabama has made significant progress in increasing racial diversity within the school's Greek system,…
April 8, 2013
BOSTON (AP) - The uproar started in 1974, when a federal judge imposed busing after a lawsuit claimed black students…
October 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - This November, residents will vote again to see if their state's Constitution can finally be rid of…
May 26, 2012
MSNBC: - 'The guns are quiet now,' is the first line in John Huston's 1946 short film, 'Let There Be…
September 20, 2011
OPINION - In recent years, a number of federal courts have ruled school districts officially 'desegregated' thereby cutting off funding...
September 19, 2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - More than a half-century after federal troops escorted nine black students into an all-white school,…
May 3, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools…