Sentences with phrase «fought school desegregation»

Although Jefferson County fiercely fought school desegregation in the 1970s, they voluntarily continued their integration plan once court oversight ended in 2000.»

Not exact matches

Here, Moses Crow watches Virginia and the United States government fight over school desegregation with the former represented by the CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimac) and the latter as the ironclad USS Monitor, the famous vessels that fought to a draw on March 9, 1862, in Hampton Roads.

His first book, The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2016), examines school district politics across the twentieth century, with attention to desegregation, funding, professionalization, and curriculum.

Supporting neighborhood schools and opposing school bus rides became rhetoric to fight desegregation without overtly racist language.

There's no doubt many of these battles were brutal; in antebellum America, Sarah Roberts and her family fought for school desegregation; during WWII, civil rights activist Fred Korematsu resisted Japanese internment - camp imprisonment; and in 1967, Mildred and Richard Loving overturned a Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriage.