Desegregation

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 25 days ago
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Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 30 days ago
RICHMOND, July 21 -- In 1989, Virginia became the first state to elect a black governor. Last year, the General Assembly passed a resolution apologizing for the state's role in the slave trade. ...

Source: www.iserp.columbia.edu --- 28 days ago
For her dissertation, Ph.D. candidate and ISERP graduate fellow Ansley Erickson is investigating school busing in Nashville as it pertains to Desegregation and rezoning initiatives. Historically, Nashville Desegregation efforts involved transporting black students significant distances to predominantly white schools. Buses transported white students too, but at a far lower frequency. During the research process, Ansley has found such inequity in busing stems from intentional redistribution of schooling in metropolitan areas. A stark imbalance between the number of schools in suburban areas and the number of schools in urban areas reflects a larger trend of racial inequality. The school redistribution strongly favors the suburban areas, which are mostly white. As the battle over school rezoning rages on today, it becomes clear that the problem of education inequity that faced Nashville forty years ago are far from resolved. ...

Source: blog.oregonlive.com --- 35 days ago
DVA spokesman Mike Allegre let me know about the observance planned for July 26 to mark a civil rights milestone. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. at the Anderson Readiness Center, 3225 State St., NE, Salem. It is open to... ...

Source: link.brightcove.com --- 50 days ago
   California prepares to desegregate its prisons, prompting fears. With gang members belonging to groups such as the Mexican Mafia and the Aryan Brotherhood, some prison guards worry violence will increase. WSJ's Bobby White reports. (July 2) ...

Source: www.defenselink.mil --- 28 days ago
President Harry S. Truman's 1948 executive order to desegregate the U.S. military was a statement of equality that declared all servicemembers must be judged by individual merit instead of their racial background, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said. ...

Source: www.jacksonville.com --- 26 days ago
Few are likely more grateful to Harry S. Truman for desegregating the military - 60 years ago today - than James Tippins. ...

Source: www.kqed.org --- 15 days ago
For decades, California corrections officials have bunked inmates of the same race together to keep the peace among race based prison gangs. That racial segregation is about to end as the nation's largest prison system prepares to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively declaring the practice unconstitutional. Inmates are on edge, worried that the change will prompt an outburst of racial violence. ...

Source: www.newswise.com --- 16 days ago
A University of Kansas (KU) researcher who studies the effects of school Desegregation and resegregation on the dropout problem in urban school systems will present his paper at the American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting on August 3 in Boston. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 23 days ago
Federal civil rights officials inspected several Baltimore-area colleges last week, the first clear indication in two years that the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights might be approa... ...

Source: www.newshounds.us --- 47 days ago
Last night 7/3/08 on Just In Laura Ingraham debated guest Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the CA Dept. of Corrections, on the recent implementation of mandated integration of California prisons. Thornton insisted that the integration would be done intelligently, with care taken not to house members of rival gangs together, but Ingraham was upset that the Court (activist judges) had ruled on this matter at all. The Supreme Court ruling came down in December 2005. Thornton clarified that the Supreme Court did not rule on the constitutionality of California's policies but rather remanded the case, Garrison Johnson vs. California, back to the lower court (the hated-on-FOX Ninth Circuit), and the corrections department and the court arrived at a settlement. Ingraham charged that the "integrated housing program" sounded like a lot of bureaucracy, and worried that members of rival gangs could be forced now to live together. Thornton objected, saying they are not stupid, and assured that care is taken when assigning cellmates. She claimed the prisons have always been desegregated, their programs, the yards, housing units, classrooms, but now race has been taken out as a factor entirely. According to articles, race was a determinant in housing upon an inmates intake, for their initial incarceration up to 60 days.The lawsuit stemmed from a black inmate, incarcerated only with other blacks for years on end, being pressured to join one gang ...

Source: www.wsls.com --- 48 days ago
“Massive Resistance” was Virginia’s answer to Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed school Desegregation ...

Source: themoderatevoice.com --- 23 days ago
As noted by fellow blogger Dorian De Wind , it was sixty years ago this week one of the more significant events in American history began when President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order which directed that all United States armed forces should be integrated. This historic order was issued on July 26, 1948. At first there was some dispute over whether or not the order actually did what it said. Some ‘off the record’ military officers tried to tell the press that it did not mean troops would be integrated. But both Army Chief of Staff Bradley and President Truman said otherwise. As of July 29, 1948 it was clear that this was what would happen, though it took some time for the process to be completed. At the time the decision was also politically controversial, coming in the middle of a tight Presidential campaign. In 1948 tje Democratic party was divided between several factions including a racially prejudiced Southern branch that walked out of the party over the incident. Today these kinds of people have been reduced to the margins, with both parties rejecting them but at the time it was a real brave move by Truman. For most of us it is amazing to think that while we were fighting for freedom in Europe that our own troops were forced to fight in segregated units. This despite the fact that many black troops were among the bravest on the battlefield, taking on jobs that white troops were unwilling to consider (often involvi ...

Source: salem-news.com --- 27 days ago
The Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs and the Oregon Military Department will honor minority military veterans during a celebration ceremony, on July 26, to recall the 60th anniversary of the Desegregation of the United States armed forces. The ceremonial event will be held Saturday, at 10 a.m., at the Oregon National Guard's Anderson Readiness Center in Salem. Among the minority military veterans who will be present at the ceremony are original members of both the World War II U.S. Army's Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Army Air Corps' 332nd Fighter Group, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The keynote speaker will be the Oregon National Guard's first African-American general officer, U.S. Air Force Deputy Inspector General, Brig. Gen. Garry Dean. ...

Source: www.fox16.com --- 45 days ago
If you're looking for a summer activity fit for the whole family, this one combines the best of two worlds: education and exercise. ...

Source: www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com --- 25 days ago
It began 60 years ago. How are you going to “celebrate” the anniversary of it? By the way, a Jewess named Anna M. Rosenberg was a key player in that Desegregation project: [Article]. ...

Source: action.gamenewsblog.com --- 46 days ago
Closing arguments in latest Desegregation court action - NewsdayClosing arguments in latest Desegregation court actionNewsday, NY - 39 minutes agoClosing arguments have been made in the latest court action involving Connecticut’s landmark school Desegregation case, Sheff vs. O’Neill. … ...

Source: www.ccpoaironwood.com --- 18 days ago
Racial gangs are a way of life in state prisons. But there’s a new push to break up these gangs before sparking violence. News Channel 3 went inside Ironwood State Prison east of the Coachella Valley near Blythe. Inside this prison are murderers, rapists, and 4,500 hundred other violent criminals in a space designed for 2,000. Nobody has [...] ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 12 days ago
Lessons learned from Desegregation ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 1 day ago
Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY - The 50th anniversary of sit-ins that led to the Desegregation of Oklahoma City eating establishments is being commemorated this week. It was August 19th, 1958, when 1 of the nation's first sit-ins by young blacks began at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter. The event was coordinated by Clara Luper who took students from the NAACP Youth Council to the store. Within days the store changed its policy and served the black students. The Freedom Center is hosting events this week to recall the sit-ins and a day honoring Luper will be Saturday. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ...