racial integration

…1974, in order to achieve racial integration in the public schools, a federal judge ordered that students be bused, and subsequent court orders mandated the integration of the city’s public housing. Many white residents fiercely resisted integration, and for nearly a decade strikes, boycotts, and ethnic violence occurred in several…

…led and thwarted endeavours for racial integration. An ideologically and politically founded racial theory was introduced into Black churches in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. The demand for a Black theology with a Black Christ in its centre has been made and, just as…

…in a Virginia school board’s desegregation plan was unacceptable because there were available alternatives that promised a quicker and more-effective conversion to a school system that was not racially segregated.

… and successfully pushed for the desegregation of both the military nursing corps and the nursing associations. The American Nurses Association (ANA) desegregated in 1949, one of the first national professional associations to do so. As a result, in 1951, feeling its goals fulfilled, the NOCGN dissolved. But by the late…

…Arkansas (1954–67), fought against the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

…aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.

…students be bused to achieve racial balance. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, an opponent of federally ordered integration, entered the Florida primary and focused squarely on the issue. Florida Gov. Reubin Askew campaigned statewide against having an antibusing referendum placed on the presidential primary ballot by the Florida legislature. Lacking…

…forced the university to accept racial integration and admit African American student James H. Meredith. The School of Accountancy, established in 1979, was one of the first schools of its kind in the nation.

…University of Mississippi during the desegregation of the state educational system. The novelist William Faulkner, who was born in New Albany, 35 miles (56 km) northeast, lived in Oxford. Rowan Oak, his home from 1930 until his death in 1962, where he wrote his tales of Jefferson (Oxford) and Yoknapatawpha…

…Court’s order in 1954 to desegregate public educational facilities, the Byrd administration, popularly called the “Byrd machine,” promoted a policy of “massive resistance” to the desegregation order. The schools of Prince Edward county gained nationwide attention by closing their doors from 1959 to 1964 rather than allowing Black and white…

…many Southern school boards resisted integration for over a decade before it was finally instituted. When desegregation came in the summer of 1969, African American students and teachers were reassigned to New Hanover and Hoggard, while Williston was closed (later to become a desegregated junior high school). The closure of…