Sentences with phrase «1960s desegregation efforts»
The lunch counter from the Greensboro, N.C., sit - ins during the 1960s desegregation efforts was my favorite exhibit.
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The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia schools resisted desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.
There's no denying the state's racist history of school segregation or its ugly efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to undermine desegregation orders by helping white children to evade racially integrated schools.
Desegregation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s did help middle class blacks gain greater access to society; but they, like their white middle class schoolmates, were already guaranteed some level of it.