integration
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Black Students Who Integrated Schools in Central Florida 50 Years Ago Share Their Stories
By Louis C. Ward (The Orlando Times, NNPA Member) Gessner Harris remembers White students hanging out of the windows at…
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Desegregation Linked to Closing Achievement Gap
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Year after year in measure after measure, Black, Latino, and Native…
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How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration
(Politico) – Forty years ago, a contentious battle over racial justice gripped Capitol Hill, pitting the nation’s lone African-American senator…
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Dolores Spikes, Trailblazer as President of Southern University, Dies at 78
William Grimes, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Dolores Spikes, who became the first woman to head…
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NFL’s Jimmy Raye Witnessed Change at the 50-Yard Line
PINEHURST, N.C. (USA Today) — Jimmy Raye couldn’t watch the college basketball game without having a flashback. It was South…
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Hip Hop Corner: Integrating into a Burning House
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last conversation with Harry Belafonte echoed in my head as…
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Charter Schools Present Post-‘Brown’ Challenge
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in…
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60-Year Journey from ‘Brown’
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Because I was a horribly ill-behaved child, I found myself shipped from San Francisco…
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The Most Segregated Schools May Not Be in the States You’d Expect
(The Washington Post) – Sixty years ago this Saturday, the Supreme Court found state laws imposing segregation unconstitutional. Progress…
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Brown v. Board of Education Decision Excerpts
The Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of public schools violated the…
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