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"The promise of Brown was not fulfilled in the way that we envisioned it," says U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who was a student at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State University when the decision was handed down. Within the first few years after the decision, paratroopers were protecting...
But a series of court decisions in the early to mid-1990s reversed the trend. The courts found that school systems had complied with their obligations to desegregate, and many communities abandoned their busing plans. Today the share of black students in majority white schools in the South is 30...
Starting in the early '70s, Prince Edward gradually integrated over the next three decades, thanks to an ambitious superintendent who improved academics and to liberal faculty at two local colleges who began sending their children to public school. Today Prince Edward's public schools are 59% black, 40% white and...
When a yellow school bus rumbles by on busy Interstate 95 in Wilmington, Del., it ticks Wayne Smith off. Since he was first elected to Delaware's state legislature in 1990, Smith, 41, has crusaded to end this small city's unusual urban-suburban busing program, which was imposed by...
In the decades after Brown, as desegregation proceeded slowly and nonviolently in Delaware, white families began abandoning Wilmington for the suburbs. But by the time Smith was a high school junior in what he calls a "lily-white" neighborhood less than a mile from where he lives now, a federal...