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Collage of photos of the Briggs family and the Brown family.

The Price of Being First: Effort to Rename Brown v. Board Reveals Family’s Pain

A failed quest to rename the famed school desegregation case for the South Carolina family who filed first is about more than legal recognition.

by Amanda Geduld via The 74 on January 23, 2024

Black students walking a gauntlet of white students to enter Clinton High School.

Why Did They Bomb Clinton High School?

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.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 31, 2023

School buses.

Why Are Schools Still Segregated? The Broken Promise of Brown v. Board of Education

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

via Retro Report on June 22, 2023

A photograph of Dennis Lehane next to the cover of his book, Small Mercies.

The Other South

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

by Steve Nathans-Kelly, Dennis Lehane via Chicago Review of Books on May 11, 2023

An 18th-century building travels Feb. 10 from its location on the campus of William & Mary to Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area.

Schools for Black American Children Predated the Revolution

Efforts in early America to educate Black children offer us a template for addressing educational inequality today.

by Grant Stanton via Made By History on February 27, 2023

Constance Motley and Randolph Rankin attending City Hall budget hearing, February 25, 1965

The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley

The story of Motley's legal career prior to Brown v. Board, and her crucial participation in it.

by Tomiko Brown-Nagin via Black Perspectives on October 14, 2022

Group of seated Black soldiers listening to staff sergeant explain G.I. Bill of Rights

How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans

Service members were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.

by Matt Delmont via Mother Jones on October 6, 2022

Black and white photo of African American girl attending a white segregated school

A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent

Among the thousands of cases the Supreme Court has decided, only a handful of dissenting opinions stand out.

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on September 15, 2022

Image of the 1970 protest against an unfair dismissal of a teacher in Uvalde.

The Uvalde Student Walkout and the Texas Rangers

Uvalde's current protests against gun control mirror those of student protests in the early 1970s.

by Caroline Lauber via Refusing To Forget on September 7, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) listens to former president Donald Trump as they speak during a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border wall on June 30, 2021, in Pharr, Tex. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The New Threat to Good Schooling for Minority Americans

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

by Rann Miller via Made By History on July 10, 2022

Photo of a neighborhood street with a house blacked out.

Schools for the Colored

A journey through the African American landscape.

by Wendel A. White via Wendel White Projects on May 23, 2022

Sarah L. Murphy teaches children in a two-room schoolhouse in Rockmart, Ga. on June 23, 1950.

The Ugly Backlash to Brown v. Board of Ed That No One Talks About

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling was hailed as a victory for desegregation. But protracted white resistance decimated the pipeline of Black principals and teachers.

by Leslie T. Fenwick via Politico Magazine on May 17, 2022

After his shooting, a hospitalized Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his victories in the Maryland and Michigan Democratic presidential primaries.

How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

by Diane Bernard via Smithsonian on May 12, 2022

Florida Governor Rob DeSantis addresses a crowd behind a podium reading "freedom from indoctrination"

Too Many White Parents Don’t Understand The True Purpose of Public Schools

Black Americans continue to fight for access to the public school systems their forebears created, against a history of white backlash and appropriation.

by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz via Made By History on May 3, 2022

Copies of the graphic novel "Maus" by Art Spiegelman on bookshelf

Ensuring White Children’s Happiness Has Long Involved Racist Double Standards

What prioritizing white happiness tells us about race and K-12 education.

by Jonna Perrillo via Made By History on February 8, 2022

A group of white, male college students marching with a Confederate flag at the University of Georgia, 1961

Politicians Dictating What Teachers Can Say About Racism Can Be Dangerous

College student essays from 1961 underscore why our current trajectory could be devastating.

by Robert Cohen via Made By History on February 3, 2022

The Crystals, a Black girl-group, performing at a high school prom.

The Kansas City School That Became a Stop for R. & B. Performers

In the nineteen-sixties, artists such as Bo Diddley and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue played the prom at Pembroke-Country Day.

by David Dale Owen via The New Yorker on December 4, 2021

Abandoned school bus with broken windows.

White Flight In Noxubee County: Why School Integration Never Happened

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

by Donna Ladd via Mississippi Free Press on October 29, 2021

Bell in 1980. He handled civil-rights cases, then came to question their impact.

The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

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

by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 10, 2021

Students in classroom

Which is Better: School Integration or Separate, Black-Controlled Schools?

Historical perspective on school integration.

by Zoë Burkholder via OUPblog on August 11, 2021

Graduation cap on pile of money

Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021

Man giving speech to White Citizens' Council

Before the Anti-CRT Activists, There Were White Citizens’ Councils

Banning such teaching isn’t colorblind; it would erase Black people from history and maintain White cultural dominance.

by David A. Love via Made By History on July 28, 2021

Women protesting desegregation

Students Need To Learn About The Haters and The Helpers of Our History

We do our children no favors if we only feed them a steady diet of fairy tales that sidestep life’s complexities.

by Michele Norris via Washington Post on July 23, 2021

Margaret Watson, 93, touches a section of the Birwood Wall that runs behind her house

Built to Keep Black From White

Eighty years after a segregation wall rose in Detroit, America remains divided. That's not an accident.

by Erin Einhorn, Olivia Lewis via NBC News on July 19, 2021

Masked person wearing transgender flag around their neck holding heart-shaped sign with colors of transgender flag (blue, pink, and white) that reads "TRANS PEOPLE BELONG"

Anti-Trans Legislation has Never Been About Protecting Children

The roots of “protecting children” in U.S. political rhetoric lie in efforts to defend white supremacy.

by Nikita Shepard via Made By History on May 10, 2021

Black students from West Charlotte High School leave the school bus

How White Americans’ Refusal to Accept Busing Has Kept Schools Segregated

The Supreme Court has refused to force White Americans to confront history.

by Matthew D. Lassiter via Made By History on April 20, 2021

A graphic that reads "taxpayer dollars."

"Taxpayer Dollars:" The Origins of Austerity’s Racist Catchphrase

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.

by Camille Walsh via Mother Jones on April 5, 2021

George Schultz walking with Ronald Reagan outdoors

George Shultz: The Last Progressive

A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.

by Ron Schatz via HNN on February 28, 2021

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

The Dark History of School Choice

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

by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on January 4, 2021

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