Sentences with phrase «of the desegregation movement»

This is not to imply that the original argument can simply be readjusted in light of the failure of the desegregation movement.

Susan Eaton and Steven Rivkin discuss the state of the desegregation movement and what it has accomplished.

Not exact matches

The statement compared the current push for police reform to the desegregation movement of the 1960s.

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the Brooklyn Historical Society will hold «The Changing Face of Activism,» which will explore the historical progression of activism from the 1960s desegregation movement to the present day Black Lives Matter movement.

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

At the same time, the civil rights movement achieved major gains, and the schools became the focus of national legislation and Supreme Court rulings that required desegregation.

They focus on three of the movement's major events: the murder and trial of Emmett Till, voter discrimination in the South, and the struggle over school desegregation in Boston.

Although overshadowed by more spectacular conflicts over desegregation, community control, and open schooling, the movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s generated more than 70 state laws seeking to create educational accountability and hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and books about how to create more efficient and accountable educational systems.

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

Tillie Harris speaks to us from 1991 but most of the narrative is spent reflecting on the year 1975; a time of banana seat bicycles, the growing feminist movement, school desegregation, and upheaval within the Harris family.

The site features a desegregation timeline, biographies and bibliographies of the reporters and writers, perspectives on reporting offered by journalists who covered the civil rights movement, and a collection of related resources on the Web.