Sentences with phrase «resisted desegregation orders»
The scholarship is part of a $ 2 million effort to compensate Ms. Moseley, 57, and other African - Americans who were denied portions of their K - 12 education when some Virginia schools resisted desegregation orders in the 1950s and 1960s by closing their doors.
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«We welcome the court's order, as it rejects the state's bid to resist providing even the most basic information about how Louisiana's voucher program will affect school desegregation efforts,» Attorney General Eric Holder said.
In the telling of authors Chris Ford, Stephenie Johnson, and Lisette Partelow, educational vouchers were born of «massive resistance» — the effort by southern states to resist court - ordered desegregation after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruling.