Sentences with phrase «to end segregation»

His continuing attempts to fight a 2009 court order to end segregation patterns in zoning have resulted in the loss of millions of federal dollars to his community.

No single action will do that, any more than refusing to sit on the back of a single bus literally ended segregation.

Brown is the central person in the historic case of Brown v. Board of Education, which profoundly impacted public education by ending segregation in public schools.

If they were serious about ending the segregation in the charters, It seems to me they would be bringing in prek and such to get them into and used to their system.

If you are welcome in polite company, you probably see Brown v. Board of Education (which ended segregation in public schools) as obvious, even inevitable — not as a political necessity or acquiescence to a particular political party's agenda.

While serving as chief counsel for the NAACP, he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 32 times, most notably, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case ending segregation in public schools.

The landmark 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education didn't end segregation in schools.

If they were serious about ending segregation there would be regional schools, it is so silly that West Hartford schools can't be «segregated» but it's ok that a town away Avon is totally segregated and that is ok.

After half a century, America's efforts to end segregation seem to be winding down.

Those of us who grew up after the civil rights movement helped end segregation in this country have seen the old photos of «Whites Only» drinking fountains and such, but have certainly never seen such a sign from a modern era business.

During Pillay's tenure, the CCLA challenged the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, fought to end segregation in prisons by challenging the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and demanded more state accountability.

There the Supreme Court unanimously stated that separate was not equal, ending segregation in the public schools.

The government had no choice, but to end segregation, because it was under pressure to do so.

Swann to them required as comprehensive a system of busing as was necessary not merely to end segregation but to achieve precise racial balance.

And the effort to abolish slavery and end segregation in our country depended not only on Lockean calculation of rights but on what can only be called religious devotion.

As the churches led in the struggle to end segregation and gross discrimination against Blacks, they might have been the locus in which serious reflection on these difficult questions took place.

Martin Luther King took the same approach in attempting to end segregation.

Did only black people campaign to end segregation in the South?

«The historic role of third parties has been to force issues neglected by the major parties into public debate - issues like the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, the 8 - hour day, Social Security, and ending segregation.

Hawkins also wants to end segregation in the state's school system, which is the worst in the country.

The civil - rights movement might have ended segregation and beat back centuries of slavery and oppression, but let's save a slow clap for well - meaning white folks with the moral courage to put themselves at the center of the narrative.

One might expect a would - be federal judge to say that ending segregation was a good thing, without opening the door to commenting on other controversial cases.

Since West Hartford's minority students disproportionately go to two of the town's schools, the town must now develop and implement a plan to end that segregation.

So obviously, segregation is bad and state law requires towns to modify policies to end any segregation that exists.

Jack A. Chambless calls for letting schools compete for students and ending segregation by economic status.

I want to take you back to 1963 — to a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama where a courageous young Black preacher fighting to end segregation was illegally confined for three days after being arrested for leading non-violent protests in the city.

In the second lesson, students become familiar with the overall strategy of nonviolence by identifying how these steps played out during one important struggle of the civil rights movement: the student protests in Nashville to end segregation.

Today, many of these cases have become relics of the 1960s and»70s, with courts and the Department of Justice often doing little to nothing to check if districts have done their duty to end segregation.

This powerful examination of a crucial dichotomy in the civil rights movement focuses on two polar opposites — one man committed to ending segregation, and one just as determined to see it maintained.

Risa Puleo: How did you connect Josef Albers's Interaction of Color to the legal battle to end segregation?

Remember that this was the year of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was supposed to have ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.