In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...
Some parents leaned on state ratings to fight Austin campus consolidations, but the rating system distorts quality and ...
On Feb. 3, 1964, 464,000 New York City school children — almost half of the city’s student body — skipped school as part of a protest against segregation within their school system. Though segregation ...
1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. 1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at ...
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