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Jean De Lafayette Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.

Education

Remembering the Legislation That Kept Northern Schools Segregated

The Milliken v. Bradley ruling sanctioned a form of segregation that has allowed suburbs to escape being included in court-ordered desegregation and busing plans with nearby cities.

Jon Hale

Civil rights activist Reverend Francis Griffin holds school books donated for the private schooling of black children, circa 1959. Prince Edward County, Virginia, shut down its public school system to avoid having to desegregate.

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Reparations Are Possible—They Happened in Virginia

In his new book, Ken Woodley recounts how Prince Edward County, Virginia, finally began to make amends.

Peter C. Baker

Leona Tate, 64, who helped to desegregate the Deep South when she was six years old.

Education

As a Six-Year-Old, Leona Tate Helped Desegregate Schools. Now She Wants Others to Learn That History.

Tate plans to open an educational center in the New Orleans school she attended as one of only three black students in 1960.

Katy Reckdahl

Social Justice

White Supremacy and Taylor Swift’s ‘Wildest Dreams’ Video

How the pop icon has embraced Hollywood's long, rich tradition of nostalgia for black subjugation.

Aaron Bady