Sentences with phrase «desegregated public systems»

Meanwhile, evangelical private schools in many southern states were attracting more students, as white families fled desegregated public systems.

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Coffin first caught the public eye when he helped organize and then led the effort to desegregate the interstate bus system with what came to be called «Freedom Rides.»

A number of them were products of the country's efforts to desegregate — and integrate — its public - education system, prompted by court orders, civil rights enforcers and activists, or federal «magnet school» dollars.

Although it would be many years before all school systems were desegregated, the Brown v. Board of Education decision was credited with kickstarting the process, not only for schools but also for other public accommodations.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.