school integration
Ending educational segregation
School integration is the process of ending racial segregation in schools, particularly the practice of bringing Black and white students together in the same institutions.
In the United States, it became federal policy after the Supreme Court's 1954 *Brown v.
Board of Education* ruling declared separate schools inherently unequal.
Methods included busing students across neighborhood lines, redrawing district boundaries, and court-ordered desegregation plans: The school integration effort faced fierce resistance in some Southern districts.
- Brown v. Board of EducationLandmark desegregation decision
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- racial equityJustice regardless of ethnicity
- affirmative actionPrograms boosting marginalized representation
- Little Rock NineStudents who desegregated Arkansas school
Jim Crow laws · peer relationships · economic disparities · busing · freedom of choice · language barriers · Supreme Court rulings · political opposition · cultural exchange · consent decrees · social mobility · federal oversight · forced busing · landmark legislation · anti-discrimination policies · racial balance · diversity quotas · rezoning
- coed schoolsboys and girls, coed dorms, inclusive education, gender equality, gender diversity
- Black AmericaBlack churches, NAACP, civil rights activism, Jim Crow, racial justice
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- Education Equityeducation equity, desegregation, affirmative action, educational segregation, Brown v. Board
- education historyeducation reforms, educational reforms, medieval universities, educational policies, schoolmarm
- Educational Equityspecial education, bilingual education, desegregation, equal access, accommodations
school integrationschool segregation
Racial division in education
racial segregation · segregation · segregated schools · separate but equal · de facto segregation
school, schools, schooled, schooling, schoolboy, schoolgirl, schoolhouse, schoolmaster, schoolteacher