school segregation

Sylvia Mendez’s role in setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education has been forgotten and overlooked.

As a white teenager in Charlotte, Elizabeth Prewitt saw mandatory school busing as a personal annoyance. Going to an integrated high school changed that.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.

The gap in education equality is holding America back.

The children who desegregated America.

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story.

The movement for school desegregation took some of its first steps with a student strike in rural Virginia. Ed Ayers learns about those who made it happen.

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago.

Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.

This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.

Though there are practical obstacles to school integration, it's not an unreachable ideal.

A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.

The largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history was not in Little Rock. Or Selma. Or Montgomery. It happened in New York City.

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.

Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling opened the floodgates for busing across the country, but what happened when the buses stopped rolling?

Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."