Tag: Segregation and Desegregation

Two Documentaries on School Integration Offer New Views of an Old Problem

Premiering in September, the films take very different looks at what has and hasn’t changed in the almost 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education.

Tracing the March on Washington Back to Where It Began, in Harlem

Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.

Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black.

New York City’s specialized high schools represent perhaps the highest-profile symbol of segregation in the nation’s largest school system.