school segregation

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

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

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.

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

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.

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

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education.

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.

She was a high-schooler in Iowa more than 150 years ago.

President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.

Like other northern liberals in the 1970s, Biden worked to restrict federal civil rights enforcement to the Jim Crow South.

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.

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

The candidate’s years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.

Almost 60 years later, a mother regrets her decision to send her 6-year-old into a hate-filled environment.

And why the Democrats can’t use it against him.

How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.