The desegregation story in Public Schools has included busing, school boycotts and the courts. Has anything really changed?

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, died ...

This week marks a major anniversary for a milestone in Louisville's history with desegregation.Fifty years ago, in 1975, thousands of students were forced to bus to new schools all across Jefferson ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After 30 years of running its schools under a court-ordered busing plan meant to desegregate, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district has been ordered to stop basing school assignments ...

Despite strong community resistance, court-ordered busing in 1975 Louisville did not result in significant "white flight" out of the county. Studies show a small percentage of white families left, ...

To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...

When Louisville began busing students to integrate schools in 1975, it did not see a large exodus of White students to private schools, as other cities did. Louisville Archbishop Thomas McDonough ...

Sixty-nine years ago this month, Rosa Parks, a Black woman in Montgomery, Ala., made civil rights history. On Dec. 1, 1955, a Thursday, after a long day as a seamstress at Montgomery Fair department ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school ...