Rosenwald Schools provided education for African Americans during segregation
In an effort to improve education for African-American children in the South, philanthropist Julius Rosenwald partnered with ...
PBS5y
Living with Segregation
I could see the old textbooks from other white high schools like the math ... rights movement overturned systematic segregation, thousands of African Americans and other minorities were brutally ...
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Brown v. Board of Education
People marching with signs to protest segregation in education at ... the public school system rather than send them to school with African Americans.
The American Conservative7y
The Roots of Segregation
His conclusion that governments could impose segregation “where ... and where our children attend school—often to the detriment of African-Americans. Rothstein is right in arguing that this ...
Smithsonian Magazine1y
The African Diplomats Who Protested Segregation in the U.S.
“American ... to highlight segregation to hurt America’s image, especially among young nations whose allegiance was up for grabs. A State Department press release describing African media ...
Palo Alto Weekly4y
Un-forgetting the segregationist history of Palo Alto (and Daly City, and San Francisco, and…)
And I realized that schools were segregated because ... gaps and income gaps that have been created by this segregation. Many fewer African Americans today, than in the past, can afford to move ...
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The position of African Americans in the early 20th century
In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people ... the Jim Crow laws meant that African Americans experienced significantly worse ...