Court-ordered desegregation has happened in the U.S. as recently as 2015, when a federal judge issued a desegregation order to the Cleveland, Miss., school...
School funding inequities persist along racial and economic lines.
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Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina and Axton...
by Eddie R. Cole, University of California, Los Angeles
Historians have documented again and again how college students contributed to the civil rights movement. Less...
by Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University and Julian Agyeman, Tufts University
The US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill enacted in November 2021 will bring money to cities for...
President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which aimed to do away with racial discrimination in the law. But discrimination persisted.
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Students danced for hours to music provided by Pete's Mobile DJ Service from Houston DJ Pete Armendariz read about the integrated prom on CNN.com and offered up his services at no cost. (CNN Photo/Brandon Ancil) by Jamie Gumbrecht WILCOX COUNTY, Georgia (CNN) -- It's a springtime tradition in this stretch of the magnolia midlands for crowds to gather at high school students' proms. They'll cheer for teens in tuxedos and gowns while an announcer reads what the students will do once they leave this pecan grove skyline.
FREE AT LAST--Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy (background) leave Birmingham City Jail following their release on April 20, 1963, after eight days of imprisonment. (AP Photo) by John Blake (CNN) -- By the time Clarence Jones reached him, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in bad shape.
