Neighborhood segregation resulted from racially explicit laws, regulations and government practices that created a system of urban ghettos and white suburbs that still exist today. This is opposite to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coalition of advocacy groups and parents sued the state in 2018 alleging there is de facto segregation in New Jersey’s public ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a state long considered a progressive political force, California's record on desegregating its own public schools is abysmal.

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SAINT PAUL, Minnesota (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court found Wednesday that massive racial imbalances in Twin Cities schools do not violate the state constitution’s guarantee of a “general and ...

In a case that could have momentous consequences for the state’s 674 school districts, a Superior Court judge has ruled that the state of New Jersey has systematically failed to address the problem of ...

On a June afternoon in 1966, the Rev. Dr. Virgil A. Wood strode through the auditorium door at the Patrick T. Campbell Junior High in Roxbury and called out to the school principal on the stage where ...