segregation academies

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.

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

50 years after closing its schools to fight racial integration, a Virginia county still feels the effects.

“They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.”

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.

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

The ugly roots of the "school choice" movement.

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

What we fight about when we fight about schools.

The right might be targeting a seminal Supreme Court case that protects educational fairness.

Joetha Collier, a young Black woman, was killed by a white man in 1971, near the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was murdered. Why isn’t her case well-known today?

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled.

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.