Two Delaware schools played an important role in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools 70 years ago and marked a turning point in America’s civil ...

1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Credit - Paul Slade—Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Trump and his allies argue ...

Desegregation efforts in the Tucson Unified School District started with a lawsuit filed 38 years ago. In 1974, two families filed separate lawsuits against the district to address disparities in the ...

Alana Laforest, a rising junior at Boston Latin Academy, has taken U.S. history classes and was among the first students in the city to take an Advanced Placement African American studies class this ...

She's been helping organize Black History Month events for 25 years, but Sylvia Cyrus-Albritton has noticed something a little different about this February: an intensely personal response to the ...

On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...

Summer campers in New Orleans are getting to walk in the footsteps of school desegregation pioneers at a new civil rights center in the Lower 9 th Ward. "We are here at historic McDonogh 19 now known ...

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One of the first Black students to attend an all-white school in the Deep South is preserving the Lower 9th Ward elementary school she helped... Desegregation pioneer Leona Tate preserves civil rights ...