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Before Brown v. Board of Education, many states sent
white and black students to separate schools. This
school from the 1930s was an exception.
Catalog ID: 491007 |
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The unanimous ruling in Brown was brought about through
the efforts of many dedicated lawyers, who worked for
years before the Court finally handed down a decision.
Schools like Little Rock’s Central High School were
desegregated as a result, but the backlash showed that
integration would not be an easy process.
Catalog ID: 489498, 493017 |
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Many white Americans opposed integration despite the
Supreme Court ruling. Pickets and racial violence were
used to prevent African Americans from attending
previously all-white schools, and the National Guard was
often called in to enforce desegregation.
Catalog ID: 286751 |
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School desegregation was a long and difficult process
that continued into the 1960s. This Dallas school
integration proceeded peacefully as parents escorted
their children to school.
Catalog ID: 446948 |
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In 1963, the University of Alabama became another civil
rights battleground, when Governor George Wallace stood
in the schoolhouse door and refused to allow the
admission of two black students.
Catalog ID: 362184 |
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Thurgood Marshall argued against many racial
discrimination laws before the Supreme Court, the most
famous of which was the Brown case. In 1967, President
Johnson nominated him to a position on the Supreme
Court, where he became the Court’s first
African-American Justice.
Catalog ID: 425957, 425365 |
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Major success in desegregation had been achieved by the
early 1970s. Many schools in the South, like this one in
Georgia, were integrated.
Catalog ID: 19612, 19614 |
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During the 1970s, school busing became the next
controversy in integration. It provoked comment from
prominent politicians and violent opposition in Boston.
Catalog ID: 444721, 494188 |
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