Two Delaware schools played an important role in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools 70 years ago and marked a turning point in America’s civil ...

As American schoolchildren have returned to schools over the last month, they’ve confronted a very different educational landscape than the one they found in classrooms last September. The second ...

Alana Laforest, a rising junior at Boston Latin Academy, has taken U.S. history classes and was among the first students in the city to take an Advanced Placement African American studies class this ...

On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...

Summer campers in New Orleans are getting to walk in the footsteps of school desegregation pioneers at a new civil rights center in the Lower 9 th Ward. "We are here at historic McDonogh 19 now known ...

1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Credit - Paul Slade—Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Trump and his allies argue ...

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