As part of The Roanoke Rambler’s ongoing coverage of segregation, we analyzed maps of the city’s racial geography from two ...

In 1960, Richard Nixon's presidential campaign stop in Springfield, Missouri, prompted the desegregation of a local hotel. Nixon's team issued an ultimatum that he would not stay at the Kentwood Arms ...

Over 60 years ago the Little Rock Nine made history when they entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Tonika Lewis Johnson, an Englewood native, explores the impacts of segregation and disinvestment in Chicago neighborhoods through her “Folded Map Project,” “Inequity for Sale” and “UnBlocked Englewood ...

Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools.Project co-director Gary Orfield, author of the "Brown at 60" report, said the changes are troubling because they show some minority students receive ...

Federal judge orders Mississippi school district to end policies. WASHINGTON, April 14, 2010— -- A federal judge in Mississippi has ordered a school district in the state to change school ...

North Carolina’s countywide school district model can be a controversial one. But experts say it’s one of the forces keeping school segregation in the state from worsening. There are 115 public school ...

The lack of progress is clear and remains frustrating in the school district that includes Central High. The Little Rock School District, which is about two-thirds black, has been under state control ...

Passover commemorates ancient Hebrew emancipation from the system of Egyptian slavery, a policy that exploited labor and segregated an entire people. This Jewish holy day reaffirms a story of triumph ...

WASHINGTON — Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools. Progress toward integrated classrooms has largely been rolled back since the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of ...