In 2004 The Civil Rights Project reported that desegregation of public schools in the USA peaked in 1988 and that resegregation has occurred in many areas since. (bookbrowse.com)
After greatly increasing desegregation of public schools a generation ago, the United States public education system is now steadily consolidating a trend toward racial resegregation that began in the late 1980s, according to a new study by The Civil Rights Project and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. (gse.harvard.edu)
After the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of public schools in Topeka, Kansas, lawsuits promptly were brought to dismantle legally sanctioned segregation in other states. (firstthings.com)