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School desegregation, in depth

How did America's school desegregation movement play out?  This collection of articles dives deeper into the stories of courage, resilience, and resistance.

created by Matt Deegan on July 30, 2025

Millicent Brown, age 15, speaks with classmates in September 1963.

The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement

Before Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against “separate but equal.”

by Rachel Devlin, Melinda D. Anderson via The Atlantic on May 30, 2018

Protestors holding signs on a bridge

Fighting School Segregation Didn't Take Place Just in the South

In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as 'just as Jim Crow' as the one she had attended in the South.

by Ashley D. Farmer via The Conversation on February 10, 2021

Are You a Seg Academy Alum, Too? Let’s Talk.

Reflecting on the impact of an education in an institution deliberately set up to defy court-ordered desegregation.

by Ellen Ann Fentress via The Bitter Southerner on June 7, 2019

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