Board of Education decision to desegregate schools, the Times reported.
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He reports on attempts to desegregate Denver's schools in 1969.
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Think of state officials failing to desegregate after Brown v.
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In 1943, she organized sit-ins to desegregate restaurants in Washington.
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Look at how much work it took just to desegregate America.
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Board of Education ordered Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, to desegregate.
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Consent decrees have been used to desegregate schools and reform police departments.
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Black children had waded through spitting mobs to desegregate whites-only schools.
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Board of Education, which ordered Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, to desegregate.
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Reinstate an Obama-era policy that ensures schools are continually working to desegregate.
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That will be no excuse to stop marching to desegregate the other 90%.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, lower courts began mandating busing to effectively desegregate schools.
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One way we do that is advocate to desegregate and actually integrate our schools.
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Ray Charles helped to desegregate concert halls; Jackie Robinson integrated an entire sports league.
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Eastland described black people as inferior and fought against efforts to desegregate the South.
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Like Biden, Stennis and Eastland were opponents of busing as a means to desegregate schools.
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He was later the court-appointed facilitator of a program to desegregate the city's schools.
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While serving in the Senate, Biden was an opponent of using busing to desegregate schools.
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She prefers to highlight her work with the Children's Defense Fund to desegregate southern schools.
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Among the last schools to desegregate were the five universities that now barred undocumented students.
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Do an inventory of your life White parents must actively work to desegregate our lives.
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Board of Education [case] in 1954, but it took forever for school districts to actually desegregate.
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The heated exchange occurred after Harris voiced dismay over Biden's opposition to busing to desegregate schools.
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When Biden was a young senator in the 1970s, he opposed busing, which helped desegregate schools.
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Some students, in school districts that were under court order to desegregate, got the "treatment" of integration.
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And we also got involved in efforts to desegregate the school system there and I got arrested.
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A progressive theater — it was the first major venue in New York to desegregate its audiences, i.e.
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She went to work for the Y.W.C.A. and joined black women in seeking to desegregate youth programs.
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In 1971, black students in the city filed a class-action lawsuit to force schools to desegregate.
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Eventually Gilmore's father also ended up employed by Yale, where he worked to desegregate its medical school.
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And so Medicare passes, and what happens is within four months of implementation, nearly 3,000 hospitals desegregate.
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His grandfather had helped desegregate parts of Louisiana, and his mother was a supporter of Barack Obama.
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But her sharpest and most personal attack was over his past opposition to mandatory busing to desegregate schools.
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"How do we ensure that we desegregate cities while providing more opportunities for mixed-income neighborhoods," asked Almazan.
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And Jefferson County had recently hired a new superintendent who was determined to honor the mandate to desegregate.
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Should gifted and talented programs be abolished to promote equity and fairness, and to help desegregate public schools?
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Several contrasted Trump announcement with President Truman's decision to desegregate the military on the same day in 1948.
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A strict blue slip rule allowed Southern senators to block judges who might try to desegregate public schools.
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And CNN reported in April about Biden's opposition to court-ordered busing to desegregate public schools in the 1970s.
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"It's not my job to desegregate the city," the chairwoman of the school board explained to The Seattle Times.
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But this was the first major city in the South to desegregate public facilities, lunch counters and movie theaters.
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Opposition from Asian lawmakers and a billionaire's lobbying push helped block Mayor de Blasio's plan to desegregate specialized schools.
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An earlier version of this article misstated when President Harry Truman signed an order to desegregate the U.S. military.
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The barriers were so ingrained that just last year, a federal court ordered the city to desegregate its schools.
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She built on efforts that started in the 19th century to desegregate transportation and gained speed in the 1930s.
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They ultimately signed a consent degree in which they did not admit guilt, but agreed to desegregate their properties.
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The United States military did the same with racial equality when it began to desegregate in the late 1940s.
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After the war ended, Addy became active in local Philadelphia politics and worked hard to desegregate streetcars and city schools.
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I liked that he mentioned his arrest by Chicago police when working to desegregate housing at the University of Chicago.
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A plan to desegregate schools in a liberal Maryland suburb founded on values of tolerance has met with stiff resistance.
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The city of Hartford, Connecticut, learned from these past successes and used magnet programming to desegregate its own school system.
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Since taking over HUD, Carson has been on a mission to absolve the department of its responsibilities to desegregate housing.
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Like Kamala Harris, I am African-American and was used to desegregate an all white school in the early 70s.
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And Bryant did so while he was being sued by civil rights attorneys for his failure to desegregate the team.
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Board of Education decision of 1954, when orders to desegregate schools in the South encountered heavy resistance from white Americans.
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In the wake of that decision, West Virginia's governor, Homer Holt, chose to desegregate public graduate schools in his state.
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Still, Judge Curtin maintained that the case had been worthwhile, because families had ultimately accepted his court order to desegregate.
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In 1956, he co-authored the "Southern Manifesto," condemning the Supreme Court decision to desegregate public schools in Brown v.
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The system, officially called the SFUSD Student Assignment System, was created 18 years ago in a bid to desegregate classrooms.
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The US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi last year ordered the school district to desegregate its school system.
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These policies tried to ban federal courts from forcing districts to bus children from one neighborhood to another to desegregate schools.
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The city also saw a series of violent riots in the 21982s after schools were ordered to desegregate by a court.
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The two shared a viral exchange during the first Democratic debates last week discussing the merits of busing to desegregate schools.
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The allegation comes months after the Cleveland School District settled a 52-year-old lawsuit demanding that it desegregate its schools.
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Even as New York City was ending its only significant effort to desegregate, the Supreme Court was expanding the Brown ruling.
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But while Northern congressmen embraced efforts to force integration in the South, some balked at efforts to desegregate their own schools.
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The research suggests that efforts to desegregate schools have been undermined by a series of factors, including most notably, residential segregation.
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He'd followed Ms. Eckford, who had inadvertently been separated from the eight other black students attempting to desegregate Central that morning.
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The court directed schools to desegregate "with all deliberate speed," but it failed to establish a firm timetable for doing so.
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The Brown decision meant while schools were forced to desegregate, they weren't mandated to allow black teachers to teach white children.
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Opposition from Asian lawmakers and a billionaire's lobbying push helped block Bill de Blasio's plan to desegregate New York's specialized schools.
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After a federal judge ordered the city to desegregate its public schools through busing in 1974, white residents responded with fierce criticism.
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She also said he opposed busing to desegregate schools, but Biden argued he only opposed busing ordered by the Department of Education.
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The friendship between Hudner and Brown was a validation of Truman's controversial decision to desegregate the nation's armed forces two years earlier.
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The initial goal of the campaign was to desegregate downtown stores for black shoppers and persuade merchants to hire black sales clerks.
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Reformers have long been working to build multiracial bridges in Christian academia and media, but these efforts alone won't desegregate religious fellowship.
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Biden may have opposed this singular effort to desegregate America's schools, but should that weigh on our view of him in 2019?
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He also argued, successfully, for a decision that made it easier for states to end court orders requiring school districts to desegregate.
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He eventually signed a consent decree requiring him to desegregate his properties, although he claimed victory because it included no financial penalty.
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They don't just suddenly desegregate, and it's unclear when — or even if — they're going to face any consequences at all for that.
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A conservative law firm filed a lawsuit last year to challenge a decades-old system that helped desegregate public schools in Hartford.
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Even our schools, once the flashpoint of efforts to desegregate, have fallen into, or remain in, patterns of separation by race and ethnicity.
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Bradley, the Supreme Court ruled that school districts didn't have to desegregate across district lines if the lines weren't drawn with racist intent.
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Much of Sanders' work was in Chicago, where he worked to desegregate student housing as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality.
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And it's interesting, 54 years ago, you were in the front lines of trying to desegregate school housing at the University of Chicago.
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While efforts to desegregate inner cities continue at a frustratingly slow pace, fair housing advocates did win significant victories during the Obama years.
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Board of Education was a girl named Linda Brown, whose story led to states being ordered to desegregate schools, mostly against their will.
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These are some of the questions we asked students in response to an article about a plan to desegregate a Maryland school district.
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After seeing images of the children under attack, the American people said no more, and business leaders were forced to desegregate downtown Birmingham.
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The peak of Harris's campaign came in mid-June when she took on Biden over the issue of using busing to desegregate schools.
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Harris called the words "hurtful," then recalled how, as a child, she was bused to school in a local effort to desegregate districts.
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Though New York City has tried to desegregate its schools in fits and starts since the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.
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Sanders, who has represented and lived in heavily white Vermont for decades, has barely focused on minority issues in his political career — and as he did Sunday night, often hearkens back more than 50 years to his student days highlighting his work as a college student to desegregate the University of Chicago and arrest for protesting to desegregate the Chicago school system.
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Yet he rarely discusses one of the earliest -- and most controversial -- issues he championed in the Senate: his fight against busing to desegregate schools.
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Biden said that his decades-old position against federally mandated busing to desegregate schools was "taken out of context" by Harris during the debate.
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Bradley, demanded a plan to desegregate a nearly all-black Detroit school district by integrating with the 53 other school districts in the area.
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Going forward Brown's decision involved competing plans to desegregate the schools, two put forward by the school district and another by the federal government.
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In response, President Dwight D. Eisenhower mobilized the Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort the nine students into Central High and desegregate the school.
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And it was a great group and we got involved in trying to desegregate the housing owned by the University of Chicago, segregated housing.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development, hoping to lower housing costs, will propose new rules that reverse Obama-era efforts to desegregate housing.
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Harris's engagement of Biden, in a June debate, on the issue of federally mandated busing to desegregate schools stood out for the same reason.
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The admissions process for gifted programs in New York City has led to a debate over how to desegregate the nation's largest school system.
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The district court concluded the state's practices were unconstitutional and issued an order to desegregate the school districts by busing students from nearby school districts.
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Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden was the use of busing to desegregate American schools -- and Biden's opposition to it in the 1970s.
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But in the days following her standout moment, Harris and her campaign have struggled to explain her own position on busing to desegregate schools today.
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Cleveland Central High School was created in 2017 after the Mississippi Delta district settled a 52-year-old lawsuit demanding that it desegregate its schools.
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In the 1960s and '70s, federally ordered busing was a mechanism to desegregate schools by busing minority children to predominantly white schools and vice versa.
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Kamala Harris invoked her own experience with busing to attack former Vice President Joe Biden's opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate schools decades ago.
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In other words, if the state doesn't have to provide a good education, it doesn't have to desegregate schools in the name of providing one.
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The case, which is responsible for overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine, was decided unanimously, although some southern schools opted to close rather than desegregate.
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It was Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower who sent in federal troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Court's decision to desegregate schools, after all.
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In the 'Tennessee Transforms' section, they recognize the Clinton 12, the FIRST group of African Americans to desegregate an all white school in the south.
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The Birmingham Campaign In 1963, civil rights organizations launched a campaign to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama, by targeting the city's downtown shopping district.
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So, we want to intentionally desegregate the city, so before the blood flow become so great that there is really nothing that can be done.
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He himself was not especially racist — he believed it was wrong, on free market grounds, for the federal government to force private businesses to desegregate.
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At War July 26 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9981, President Harry Truman's directive to desegregate the United States military.
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"Common Ground," J. Anthony Lukas's Pulitzer-winning masterpiece about Boston's turbulent attempt to desegregate its schools via court-ordered busing, is inspiring a stage play.
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His father was a journalist and his mother was the first black national president of the Y.W.C.A.; she helped desegregate the organization in the 1960s.
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The fireworks continued when the court allowed busing to desegregate schools and issued a series of rulings that shielded criminal suspects from abusive police practices.
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In the fall of 1978, after years of bitter battles to desegregate Los Angeles classrooms, 1,000 buses carried more than 40,000 students to new schools.
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The city lets parents apply to any elementary school in the district, having done away with traditional school zoning in an effort to desegregate classrooms.
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In 1975, when he was a 32-year-old U.S. senator, Biden opposed busing, then an extremely hot-button issue in the battle to desegregate schools.
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Board Supreme Court decision, which famously declared that separate schools for black and white children were not equal, the federal government began -- albeit slowly -- to desegregate.
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Despite the court's landmark ruling, efforts to desegregate schools were met with widespread protests and riots, particularly by white Americans in the South who opposed integration.
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Eugene Williams, a black civil rights leader who helped desegregate the schools in Charlottesville, said that the removal of the plaque might prompt some useful conversations.
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The Tuskegee Airmen's success helped lay the groundwork for the civil rights movement and influenced President Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the armed forces in 1948.
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Most candidates for president, don't put this on their resume, but I was arrested by the Chicago police for trying to desegregate the Chicago school system.
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He had, however, been one of the first coaches of a southern college to desegregate his college basketball program when he recruited Charlie Scott in 1967.
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Board of Education that "separate facilities are inherently unequal" and ordered states to desegregate "with deliberate speed," issues surrounding a fully integrated education system remain today.
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Biden and Eastland might have gotten along because Biden sought his support in 1977 in fighting busing as a way to desegregate schools, according to CNN.
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Harris confronted Biden on his record against busing to desegregate schools and comments earlier this month about his ability to be civil and work with segregationist senators.
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The fairest way to do so is to desegregate restrooms by sex, and that means eliminating the men's and women's rooms in favor of "all gender" restrooms.
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"In Hopkins there is a raspberry festival every year and we were the first people of color to be sent to desegregate that school district," she said.
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And communists believed they could win the hearts and minds of black Americans if they could desegregate professional baseball, which had prohibited blacks since the nineteenth century.
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The Morgan State team he played on was born during a period of intense racial tension in Baltimore and is credited with helping to desegregate the sport.
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She focused on women, like the group of black golfers in the Wake-Robin Golf Club, who fought to desegregate the sport in Washington in the 843s.
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Although many students learn about the historical struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum.
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County School Board of New Kent County, the Supreme Court held that "freedom of choice" plans which failed to desegregate public education are inconsistent with Brown v.
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During the civil rights era, Mr. Laird was instrumental in weakening several Southern-backed proposals that would have limited the federal government's ability to desegregate public schools.
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The paratrooper, Needham Mayes, was among the first black servicemen on the base since the executive order to desegregate the armed forces was signed seven years earlier.
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Not long after hammering Biden for his opposition to federally mandated busing, Harris acknowledged that she would not push for mandatory busing programs to desegregate schools today.
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In March, a federal court accepted a settlement from Cleveland, Mississippi's school district that would desegregate its schools — ending a case that began over 50 years ago.
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Carson disparaged 1970s busing programs meant to desegregate city schools as one of a series of "failed socialist experiments" in a Washington Times op-ed from July 2015.
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She was one of two girls to desegregate her middle school, and went on to become the first woman president of the student body at Tennessee State University.
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It's an organization that works to desegregate the city and focuses on creating family units for underperforming high school kids who don't have a high chance of graduating.
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"I think we should consider it, but we're not voting 220006 years ago," the Congressional Black Caucus member said of Biden's opposition to using busing to desegregate schools.
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His mother and father were civil rights foot soldiers who in their spare time would do things like sue their hometown police department to force it to desegregate.
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When I was a young man at the University of Chicago, I worked with fellow black and white students trying to desegregate the University of Chicago owned housing.
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Her cousin, a surgeon named William Gilchrist Anderson, lived in Albany, Ga., where he led a large coalition of activists in the early 1960s to desegregate public facilities.
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The educational task force proposed that the mayor should eliminate the entrance exam and the entire gifted and talented program in an effort to desegregate the city's schools.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved into an apartment near this district as part of his Chicago Freedom Movement campaign to desegregate neighborhoods and get fair, affordable housing.
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Biden pointed out that Harris had not brought any cases to desegregate schools in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco during her time as attorney general in California.
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In the…Read more ReadTo top it all off, DeVos apparently sees no role for her agency to play in helping desegregate schools or combat discrimination of any form.
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Harris delivered a scathing criticism of Biden's views from the 1970s on school busing to desegregate schools, and Biden took heavy criticism afterward for his defensive and ineffective response.
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A federal court has ordered a town in Mississippi to desegregate its high schools and middle schools, ending a five-decade legal battle over integrating black and white students.
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Also present will be members of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who helped desegregate the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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Senator Sessions claims he filed "85033 to 30 civil rights cases" to desegregate schools and other organizations in Alabama when he was a U.S. attorney for Alabama's Southern District.
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In a 2015 Washington Times op-ed, Carson compared the Obama administration's attempts to desegregate (a word he put in quote marks) to "failed socialist experiments" of the '85033s.
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Remember, said the museum's chief executive, John L. Swaine, the movement that would desegregate lunch counters across the South started with just four people — and they were your age.
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An earlier version of this article misstated who was barred in a provision in the 2018 spending bill from requiring the production of plans to desegregate federally subsidized housing.
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While declaring diversity a top priority last year, Ms. Fariña said she wanted to see plans to desegregate the schools bubble up "organically" rather than be mandated from above.
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It was 1975, a year after a federal judge ordered the city to desegregate its public schools, a decision that led to violent protests in some predominantly white neighborhoods.
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Biden: "I didn't see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate them," he said, referring to segregated schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Students have introduced their own proposals to help desegregate public schools, and many support eliminating the specialized high school admissions test and overhauling the city's gifted and talented programs.
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Students have introduced their own proposals to help desegregate public schools, and many support eliminating the specialized high school admissions test and overhauling the city's gifted and talented programs.
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So as Congress begins to debate the bill, Montague Cobb knows that this is the moment to both create a national health insurance program and desegregate the nation's hospitals.
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Harris, a former prosecutor, confronted Biden over his decades-old Senate fight against busing to desegregate schools and comments about his ability to be civil and work with segregationist senators.
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Jo Ann was a member of the Clinton 12, a group of Tennessee students who were the first to desegregate a state-supported high school in the south in 1956.
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" Sanders on an experience that helped him understand other cultures: "Most candidates don't put this on their resume, but I was arrested for trying to desegregate the Chicago school system.
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After an internship at The Boston Herald-American, she wrote about food there before reporting on education in the aftermath of the tumult over busing to desegregate schools in Boston.
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When a federal judge forced St. Louis to desegregate its public pools in 1951, white attendance at the pools now accessible to black swimmers plummeted by more than 95 percent.
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But those interests were racialized, which is how a younger Biden could at once be a committed liberal and an ardent opponent of busing to desegregate his state's public schools.
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San Francisco allows parents to apply to any elementary school in the district, having done away with traditional school zoning 18 years ago in an effort to desegregate its classrooms.
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While football integrated before basketball and baseball, it was still not until 1962 that the football team which calls the nation's capital home saw it fit to desegregate its roster.
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The anti-tax/anti-big-government sentiment driving the measure was part of a conservative backlash that had been building since the Supreme Court's 1954 decision to desegregate public schools.
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He was born in 1951, 10 years before Barack Obama, and was on the youthful tail of the generation that helped to desegregate political, social and cultural institutions in American society.
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That version starred a young Ricki Lane as Tracy Turnblad, a plus-size teen girl determined to dance on a local television show, redefine their beauty standards, and desegregate the cast.
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His opposition to busing to desegregate schools has received renewed attention, as has his 1982 vote in support of a constitutional amendment that would have let states overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Opposition to actions that would forcefully desegregate America's increasingly segregated schools remains high in places like New York City, for example, where white parents have opposed some proposals to diversify schools.
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The complaint seeks several potential remedies, including the appointment of a monitor to propose a plan to "desegregate" the Fire Department's civilian ranks and the adoption of a pay equity policy.
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But over the past year, some areas of the system have begun experimenting with ways to desegregate, if not by the color of children's skin, at least by their families' wealth.
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Decades after his lawsuit successfully helped desegregate the city's schools, he finds it hard to identify with the activists of today, who shout at public meetings and focus on removing statues.
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Read "Democrats Shout 'Shame!' as Republicans Overturn Vote to Prevent LGBT Discrimination" Read "Judge Orders Mississippi School District to Desegregate, Ending Decades-Long Fight" Watch "Heritage and Hate: Mississippi's State Flag"
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Earl Warren, the chief justice who presided over an array of major decisions, including the order to desegregate schools, called it ''the most important case of my tenure on the court.
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His uncle, J. P. Evans, was a scratch, or expert, player who in the early 1970s helped desegregate the public course where his nephew would learn the game 143 years later.
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She scored the biggest victory of her campaign in June, when, at the first debate, the senator excoriated Biden on his past opposition to busing as a way to desegregate schools.
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Board of Education, their historic decision to desegregate public schools, and in a follow-up ruling in 1955, they explicitly allowed school districts to proceed slowly rather than ordering precipitous change.
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Investing an additional $400 billion to build two million mixed-income social housing units to be administered through the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which will help desegregate and integrate communities.
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Board of Education to make racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional nationwide, St. Louis's Board of Education attempted a three-step plan to desegregate its educational system from 22019 to 22013.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, as historian Randall Balmer has shown, white evangelicals in the South felt anxious about Supreme Court decisions forcing them to desegregate their K-12 academies and colleges.
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It matters not that a group of black pastors is defending him, with one crediting Sessions for having "worked to bankrupt the KKK in Alabama" and helping desegregate that state's government schools.
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A high point came on the baseball field, where Bill attracted the attention of white boys at another school, the prestigious Woodberry Forest, which had previously refused the foundation's request to desegregate.
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The midcentury buildings of Tuscon's Sunshine Mile, modernist glass-dome conservatories in Milwaukee, and the first golf course to desegregate in the South are included in cultural and architectural heritage in peril.
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As the head of the Alabama Civic Affairs Association, Lowery led the movement to desegregate buses and public spaces, and helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott following Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955.
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In Brooklyn, residents in a school district that includes the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Red Hook and Sunset Park are plowing forward with a plan to desegregate their middle schools.
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After the first presidential debate in June, Harris enjoyed a peak in her polling numbers, likely due to her viral takedown of Joe Biden's opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate schools.
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Among the scholars cited here, there is virtual unanimity on the conviction that one way to improve the prospects of poor minorities, black and Hispanic, is to desegregate both schools and housing.
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Facts First: Harris was indeed part of the second integrated class at Berkeley's Thousand Oaks Elementary School: she entered school in 1969, and the plan to desegregate the school was implemented in 1968.
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In that way, they're not unlike the draft resisters from the Vietnam War, or the black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who inspired sit-ins nationwide to desegregate public spaces in the 1960s.
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"Most candidates running for president usually don't put this on their resume, but a year later I was arrested by Chicago police for trying to desegregate the Chicago school system," he said Sunday.
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"Most candidates running for president usually don't put this on their résumé, but a year later I was arrested by Chicago police for trying to desegregate the Chicago school system," he added. Mrs.
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Seeing the rival All-American Football Conference as more promising — it had moved faster to desegregate — he signed with the Los Angeles Dons, for a $4,000 bonus, a week before the N.F.L. draft.
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Then, in 212, a divided court undid much of Brown's legacy by proclaiming that districts could not consider an individual student's race when making school assignments — even if the purpose was to desegregate.
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In a 2015 study, the sociologist Michael Biggs and I found that sit-ins could prompt business owners even in neighboring cities to desegregate, because they feared the costs of facing future protesters.
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While the account spread positive stories about African-American parents and a woman who helped desegregate New Orleans' schools, it also at times took a more pointed tone about the treatment of minorities.
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Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza has promised, with sweeping rhetoric, to desegregate schools, but he has not yet released any major integration policies of his own during his 18 months on the job.
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O'Rourke tailored his stump speech accordingly, opening with the story of the first person to desegregate the public schools in his hometown of El Paso, and decrying the disproportionate incarceration rate among black men.
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The Washington Post reported on Monday that the lawsuit focuses on Carson's decision to suspend a 2015 rule that enforced the 1968 Fair Housing Act requirement for communities to desegregate or lose federal funding.
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So far, so pretty good, including the way that Garrett's endeavors helped desegregate Los Angeles, as he took buildings bordering white neighborhoods and gradually opened them up to the growing African-American middle class.
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The California Democrat scored the biggest victory of her campaign in June, when, at the first debate, the senator excoriated Joe Biden on his past opposition to busing as a way to desegregate schools.
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This second newly proposed HUD rule effectively relieves jurisdictions from an obligation to desegregate and virtually reduces the Fair Housing Act to a tool that can be used only to combat racially explicit discrimination.
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Hizzoner could also spend the next two years aggressively working to desegregate the city's public schools — the tiny number of black and Hispanic students in the city's competitive public high schools is especially galling.
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That's set in late Jim Crow-era North Carolina and is about a civil rights activist (Taraji P. Henson) who teams up with the local KKK chief (Sam Rockwell) to desegregate their children's school.
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Some gun rights advocates have suggested that's because lower courts have been thumbing their nose at Scalia's opinion in an act of massive resistance akin to the South's refusal to desegregate after Brown v.
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By the same token, it was also the first Southern city to, in 1960, within three months of the first sit-in protests organized at lunch counters and stores, begin to desegregate its public facilities.
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Kamala Harris said busing students should be considered by school districts trying to desegregate their locations, not the federal mandate she appeared to support in pointedly criticizing rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last week.
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Preston Jowers is the oldest surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first all-black aviation unit whose exemplary flying record helped influence Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948.
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Busing was used to immediately desegregate schools in the hopes of not only ending state-sanctioned segregation of blacks and whites, but to also give black and white students equal access to resources and opportunities.
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On Tuesday, a task force created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to find ways to desegregate New York City's school system released a proposal to completely overhaul admission practices in the nation's largest school district.
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S.N.C.C. went on to lead the "Freedom Rides," in which participants risked life and limb to desegregate interstate transportation, and then to organize "Freedom Summer," a massive voter registration drive targeting disenfranchised black southern voters.
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On Tuesday, a task force created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to find ways to desegregate New York City's school system released a proposal to completely overhaul admission practices in the nation's largest school district.
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After a decade of litigation, a judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in 2005; the case was settled in 2012 and HUD subsequently launched a pilot program meant to help desegregate housing in Baltimore.
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The Best of Enemies has Taraji P. Henson playing a real-life civil rights leader from Durham, North Carolina who befriended a KKK leader, played here by Sam Rockwell, in an effort to desegregate local schools.
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The mayor is facing pressure to diversify the programs, but he has not shown a willingness to take sweeping action to desegregate schools and has already distanced himself from the proposal to scrap gifted programs altogether.
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Last month, an educational task force created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to find ways to desegregate New York City's school system released a proposal calling for the elimination of the city's gifted and talented programs.
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In fact, the desegregation of baseball came after a decade-long campaign by black and left wing journalists and activists, which I detail in my book Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball.
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CHICAGO — George N. Leighton, a distinguished Chicago lawyer and judge who worked to desegregate juries and schools, advocated for people facing the death penalty and represented a Chicago crime boss, died on June 6 in Brockton, Mass.
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The agency, which has a budget of almost $50 million, oversees public housing programs for the poor, guarantees mortgages through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and has been working to desegregate cities across America under Barack Obama.
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School districts were allowed to apply for unitary status that released them from court oversight as long as they could prove they had done everything practicable to desegregate, even if the schools were still, in fact, segregated.
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Cory Booker took issue with Joe Biden's answer during Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate when the former vice president defended his decades-old position against busing to desegregate schools during his tenure as a first-term US senator.
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Sen. Kamala Harris said Wednesday that busing students should be considered by school districts trying to desegregate their locations — not the federal mandate she appeared to support in pointedly criticizing rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last week.
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The landmark anti-discrimination law turns 50 years old in 2018, but efforts to desegregate inner cities continue at a frustratingly slow pace, and the Trump administration is looking to undercut the gains made during the Obama years.
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Fifty-nine years ago today, Ruby Bridges' decision to walk through the doors of an all-white elementary school, making her the first African American student to desegregate the school, propelled the civil rights movement to new heights.
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In emailed answers to a set of policy questions, Ms. Nixon said that she supported current efforts to desegregate the schools, including getting rid of the single test that determines admission to the city's elite specialized high schools.
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Bridges' story of activism began at only 6 years old, when she became the first — and only — black student in 1960 to attend William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, following a federal judge's orders to desegregate Louisiana public schools.
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Through stark and evocative illustrations, book one tells the first-hand account of Congressman Lewis' experience with the Civil Rights Movement, starting with Lewis' rural upbringing to how Lewis helped desegregate lunch counters in Nashville through non-violent protests.
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The district had previously used busing to try to desegregate schools, under a 1983 agreement with the N.A.A.C.P. But a group of Chinese-American families sued in the 221s, saying their children were being denied seats at elite campuses.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to propose pulling back Obama-era efforts to desegregate housing, saying that people should have the opportunity to live where they want as long as they are protected from discrimination and housing is affordable.
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Sanders also called for the implementation of his Thurgood Marshall plan, which would reduce preschool class sizes, increase English as a second language instruction, desegregate the public education system and put $50 billion into after-school and summer programs.
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While the Delta has cultural richness, it is among the poorest regions in the United States — a federal judge last year ordered the town, which has a large African-American population, to desegregate its high schools and middle schools.
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The Court ruled 5-4 that a majority-black school district like Detroit could not bus students from majority-white suburban school districts to Detroit to desegregate the city's schools, unless those suburban districts were also engaged in unlawful segregation practices.
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Last year, six decades after the US Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" had no place in the nation's public schools, a federal judge ruled that Cleveland's schools must desegregate and that the town's middle and high schools must consolidate.
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — It was the summer of 1975, and Joe Biden felt the need to reassure his constituents back home: His vote the year before that helped save busing as an option to desegregate schools didn't mean he supported the practice.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Is a billionaire white woman who was able to buy her way into a US Cabinet position morally equivalent to a six-year-old black girl who helped desegregate a New Orleans public school?
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Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Mr. Estevez, as president of the Latino Action Network, together with about a dozen other plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey on Thursday, calling on it to desegregate its schools statewide.
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John T. Curtin, a federal judge whose rulings forced Buffalo to desegregate its schools and the Occidental Chemical Corporation to clean the chemical wastes at the toxic Love Canal landfill, died on April 14 in Orchard Park, N.Y. He was 95.
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But the summer before I started at Carver, I took some summer school electives at Ponce de Leon Middle School, our zoned school, where my mom worked as a security guard and which she helped to desegregate in the '60s.
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He reiterated in the CNN interview that while he believed federally mandated busing "did not work," he was in favor of voluntary local busing efforts to desegregate schools like the one Ms. Harris participated in as a child in Berkeley, Calif.
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Finding the insights of intersectional feminism to be useful for recognizing and mobilizing diverse peoples, many Americans committed to social justice have taken to more actively trying to desegregate their activism to make common cause with others and enact political change.
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At a time when busing controversies were provoking racial unrest in cities like Boston, Mr. Biden argued that housing integration — which would take much longer to implement than a busing plan — was a far better way to desegregate public schools.
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At a time when busing controversies were provoking racial unrest in cities like Boston, Mr. Biden argued that housing integration — which would take much longer to implement than a busing plan — was a far better way to desegregate public schools.
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The grandchildren of Robert W. Johnson, who is credited with helping to desegregate tennis by training African American champions including Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson, want to turn his home and the adjacent tennis court in Lynchburg, Virginia, into a museum.
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" Asked more specifically whether she supported federally mandated busing to desegregate schools in areas where segregation was not the result of discriminatory laws, Harris responded, "I believe that any tool that is in the toolbox should be considered by a school district.
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But in fact that East Bay university town is a harbinger: It was the first, or among the first, to voluntarily and intentionally desegregate schools, make sidewalks wheelchair accessible, establish a municipal recycling program and limit fast-food packaging and indoor smoking.
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Ben Carson, HUD's secretary, recently confirmed with lawmakers HUD's delay of a rule requiring local governments that receive HUD funds to create plans that would help desegregate neighborhoods — and many fair housing advocates fear that rule is now on the chopping block.
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President Barack Obama's attempts to desegregate this federal bench were obstructed by Senator Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina, who blocked the vote on two highly qualified female African-American nominees and who now supports Mr. Farr's nomination to the Eastern District.
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After a five-decade legal battle, a federal court has ordered Mississippi's Cleveland School District to desegregate in observance of the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v Board of Education, which held that separate schools for black and white students are unconstitutional.
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Related: Judge Orders Mississippi School District to Desegregate, Ending Decades-Long Fight "It's a term which you can't think of without having that sort of the smell of incense and the sound of a gong kind of in your head," Yang said.
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If we truly want to desegregate our schools and promote academic achievement, here are three easy ways to get started: First, enact universal school choice programs that allow all families to access the funds that are set aside by state governments to educate their students.
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When asked what he's done to assist the black community specifically in his career, Sanders assured he doesn't "talk about this very often" then went into his work to desegregate housing at the University Chicago with a group called Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
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The stakes are especially high for Harris, who has been mired in the low single digits in polls since the weeks after she surged following an attack on Biden over his record on busing to desegregate schools the first time they shared the stage.
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McGee is a member of the Tuskegee Airmen — the famed group of African-American military pilots who fought the Axis Powers in World War II. The success of the Tuskegee Airmen helped influence President Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948.
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From '60s activist to Vermont institution Sanders has been working on liberal causes for almost six decades, starting from his time as a student activist at the University of Chicago, where he worked to desegregate student housing as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality.
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A professor told me about how a deadly explosion in the Bay Area during World War II set off a chain of events that would push the military to desegregate, and a bar owner told me about the nuances of efforts to preserve San Francisco's L.G.B.T.Q. spaces.
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Like Ms. Harris did in the first debate, when she challenged Mr. Biden on his resistance to court-ordered busing to desegregate schools in the 70s, rivals will likely focus on the more controversial parts of Mr. Biden's decades-long career in the United States Senate.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisPoll: Trump trails top 2020 Democrats in Michigan Social justice advocate steps up calls for DNC to hold poverty-focused debate Trump trails top five 2020 Democrats in national poll MORE (D-Calif.) for his opposition to the federal government using busing to desegregate schools.
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By emphasizing that people who challenged the government changed the United States — "When I first started school, we were still struggling to desegregate schools across the American South," he said — Mr. Obama's comments, and sincerity, instilled in many Cubans a new hope and offered a knowing vote of confidence.
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When a new succession of heavily white towns sought to break off from Jefferson County, beginning in the late 1980s, they went unchallenged, even though each secession siphoned large numbers of white students from the district, which had yet to comply fully with the court's mandate to desegregate.
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Things got even more heated when Harris proceeded to bring up another thorny racial issue from Biden's past: In 1975, he sponsored a bill making it so federal funds couldn't be used by schools trying to desegregate by busing minority children to predominantly white schools and vice versa.
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Confrontation with Biden The highlight of Harris' month came when, before more than 18 million Americans watching the primary debates, the California senator unloaded on Biden, lambasting the race's frontrunner for his decades-old fight against busing to desegregate schools and comments about his ability to be civil and work with segregationist senators.
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Ian Sams, a national spokesman for Harris, maintained in a statement that Harris' answer on Wednesday did not conflict with her comments on the debate stage, arguing that the fight over busing to desegregate schools in the '60s and '70s and the conversation about busing in the modern era cannot be compared.
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Ian Sams, a national spokesman for Harris, maintained in a subsequent statement that Harris' answer on Wednesday did not conflict with her comments on the debate stage, arguing that the fight over busing to desegregate schools in the '60s and '70s and the conversation about busing in the modern era cannot be compared.
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Her parents told the outlet their daughter has also dressed up as civil aviator Bessie Coleman, the first woman of African-American descent and the first of Native American descent to hold a pilot license, and Ruby Bridges, who was the first African-American child to desegregate an elementary school in the South.
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At the first Democratic presidential debate, Harris had a tense exchange with Biden on the issue of school busing, pointing out that a bill he sponsored in 1975, which would have restricted the use of federal funds for busing meant to desegregate schools, could have kept her from attending her elementary school.
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During the interview, Harris also was pressed about her widely-praised confrontation with former Vice President Joe Biden at last month's Democratic primary debate, during which the California Democrat called him out over his decades-old fight against busing to desegregate schools and comments about his ability to be civil and work with segregationist senators.
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Harris, in a blunt, pointed attack that mixed her personal story and race, took Biden to task for his decades-old fight against busing to desegregate schools and comments about his ability to be civil and work with segregationist senators, two stories that have hounded the recent weeks of the former vice president's campaign.
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Although the Kansas City, Missouri, native was one of the most decorated pilots within the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first all-black aviation unit whose exemplary flying record helped influence Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948, the incredible hallmark did little to change how McGee was treated upon returning home.
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As a young senator, Biden called busing a "bankrupt concept" and worked with other lawmakers, most of them conservative, to limit the scope of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned school segregation, and to stop the federal government from threatening to hold federal funds if schools did not desegregate.
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Visit CNN's Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race The Biden-Harris relationship was tested during a fiery primary campaign, especially when the California senator pointedly went after the former vice president for his decades-old fight against busing to desegregate schools and his comments about his ability to work with segregationist senators.
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In a 10-point plan, Mr. Sanders, one of nearly two dozen candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that, if elected, he would "desegregate schools" in part by forbidding federal spending on new charter schools as well as by banning for-profit charter schools — which account for a small proportion of existing charters.
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But before we buy into the idea that school integration is a settled issue entirely we also need to confront this uncomfortable fact: by some measures we have lost ground in recent decades in the effort to desegregate our public schools, with eight of the top ten states with the most segregated schools outside of the South.
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Political cartoonist Glenn McCoy is just the latest person to compare those who blocked President Trump's secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, from entering a public school last week to those who aimed to stop 26-year-old Ruby Bridges from becoming the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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The plan would try to revive the force of the federal government's efforts in the 123s and 1960s to end the separation of students by race, help school districts that are trying to desegregate their own schools, and address funding disparities that mean students of color often end up in schools that have less money and more inexperienced teachers.
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Standing between his rivals At least some of the criticism awaiting Biden on the debate stage is already clear: In recent days, Booker has repeatedly attacked Biden over his role in the passage of the 1994 crime bill, while, in the first debate, Harris eviscerated Biden over his opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate schools.
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Less drawn to Truman's 1948 signing an executive order to desegregate the armed forces, I found myself bypassing the museum, a major attraction on the trail, to explore an unlikely pre-Civil War alliance: William Quantrill, the notoriously savage Confederate guerrilla leader, and John Noland, a free slave who served as his primary scout and spy.
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When she scored a debate win against former Vice President Joe Biden in the first contest, pointing out how his position against federally mandated busing to desegregate school districts (she was one of the minority students who benefited from it) she wasted a poignant moment that could have established her as belonging to a new generation of politicians.
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As the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) noted in an official statement, Lee's transfer decision is the result of residency guidelines set in 21991 to desegregate the school system: Even if the family's new St. Louis County school district participated in the transfer program, the student would still not be able to transfer.
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While Biden has built a strong civil rights record over the last four decades and spent eight years as vice president to the nation's first black president, his stand against busing as a method to desegregate schools -- which he still stands by today -- is among the chapters of a legislative record facing a second look by today's progressive Democratic Party.
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He used his speaking time to try and set the record straight after Harris said a 1975 Biden bill preventing schools trying to desegregate by busing minority children to predominantly white schools and vice versa from accessing federal funds was personal and "hurtful" to her, as someone who was one of the first black classes to integrate her own Berkeley, California, school district.
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The path that abolitionists called for to achieve these goals seemed strikingly similar to the original (if ultimately failed) goals of the Great Society and "war on crime" laid out by Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid to late 1960s: to generate millions of new jobs, combat employment discrimination, desegregate schools, broaden the social safety net and build new housing.
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A panel appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de BlasioBill de BlasioKey questions in final hours before Democratic debate deadline New York City panel recommends ending gifted programs for students CNN town hall with de Blasio, Bullock marks ratings low for network MORE (D) has proposed doing away with "gifted and talented" programs in an effort to desegregate the nation's largest public school system.
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The mayor has held it up as an example of what the city needs to do to desegregate its public schools: A year ago, a local education council redrew the boundaries of 11 elementary school zones on Manhattan's Upper West Side in an effort to reduce overcrowding and, it hoped, chip away at the stark racial and economic disparities that separated several neighboring schools.
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These three landmark pieces of legislation pushed back against discrimination and segregation and the impact of each cannot be overstated: Schools and universities across America were forced to take meaningful steps to desegregate; African Americans, especially in Southern states, were granted unprecedented access to the ballot box; and racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing was banned, a first step in desegregating entire neighborhoods.
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National monuments are among the most stirring and historically significant places in the United States, and they include the Statue of Liberty; the Grand Canyon; Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the fortified island that took the first shots of the Civil War; sites in Alabama honoring the Freedom Riders who helped desegregate interstate bus travel during the Civil Rights Movement; the buttes, canyons, and archeological ruins of Bear's Ears, Utah; and the ancient villages of Hovenweep in Colorado.
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President Obama twice tried to desegregate the court by nominating two African American women with stellar credentials, but they were not confirmed due in part to the state's Republican U.S. senators, Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisThe United States broken patent system is getting worse Gun reform groups to pressure GOP senators with rallies in all 22019 states To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies MORE and Richard BurrRichard Mauze BurrHoekstra emerges as favorite for top intelligence post Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Trump withdraws Ratcliffe as Intelligence pick MORE, both of whom backed Farr's nomination.
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In a 2007 interview with NPR's Michel Martin, Wiltse, also the author of Contested Waters, a book about the history of controversy surrounding America's public pools, provided an interesting piece of insight into the anxiety around intimate contact with black people, which he said made resistance to integrating swimming pools even more contentious than integrating schools in some cases: And so the concern among white swimmers and public officials that if blacks and whites swam together at these resort pools in which the culture was highly sexualized, that black men would assault white women with romantic advances, that they would try to make physical contact with them, and that this was unacceptable to most northern whites … … There was a court case that emerged added an attempt by the local NAACP to desegregate the municipal pools in Baltimore.
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