Word: integrationism
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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...
The old all-black institutions, from elementary schools to East Topeka High, have been closed up or torn down, and their students dispersed throughout the district. Behind the Gothic facade of Topeka High, the city's largest high school, a racially diverse blend of students (at 61% white, 20% black...
Although McFrazier agrees that Brown was necessary and right for its time, he says that "we need to recognize what's changed in 50 years, and look beyond integration." For Brown to fulfill the promise of educational parity, he says, schools must involve parents more closely in monitoring children's...
Of all the communities among the Brown cases, this rural, Black Belt county in Virginia may have suffered the deepest scars--but not from bombs, cross burnings or any of the other violence desegregation sparked in much of the rest of the South. While today educators call its schools a...
Prince Edward is the only place where the students themselves launched the drive for integration. Before Brown, the county's black high school was so overcrowded, some pupils attended class in leaky, tar-papered shacks outside. Their outdated textbooks and buses were hand-me-downs from the white schools. One...