Sentences with phrase «integrating black and white students»

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»

School resegregation for black students is increasing most dramatically in the South, where, after a period of intense resistance, strong action was taken to integrate black and white students.

Not exact matches

Since we generally accept that African Americans are not intellectually inferior to whites, then we are led to conclude that black students do better in integrated school settings because the school district and faculty are better invested because of the presence of the white students.

Nonprofit Film Documents School Desegregation «Two Schools in Hillburn» is a documentary that details the struggle to integrate the schools, Main School for white students and the Brook School for black students located in Rockland County in 1943.

The case against the Lowndes County public schools began in 1973 when the U.S. Justice Department filed suit in an effort to better integrate the school system's white and black students.

Other studies have found that both black and white students who attend integrated schools are more likely to work in desegregated companies after graduation than students who attended racially isolated schools.

Shown here in the fall of 1958 are black and white students at Norfolk Catholic High School, which had integrated voluntarily soon after the Brown decision of 1954.

Research on the impacts of integrated schools and my own experience attending racially integrated schools in the 60's and 70's, has shown that there can be huge benefits to all students — whether disadvantaged or privileged, white, black or brown — when attending a diverse school.

Not wanting to stir up tensions created in Boston and other cities over forced busing of white students, then - MPS Superintendent Lee McMurrin developed a plan to integrate schools via «choice,» specialty magnet schools and a busing scheme that once again disrupted black students» lives, but had little effect on white students.