Today is the deadline for Southern school districts to file their 1966-67 desegregation plans (or compliance forms) with the federal Office of Education. Districts which do not file plans can have ...

Shep Melnick: The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case paving the way for school desegregation was a historic milestone in the nation’s quest for civil ...

The parties reached a settlement in February 1959. The Harlem 9’s children would not enroll in the schools for which they were zoned. Nor would they be able to engage in “open choice” – the parents’ ...

The district is one of nearly 40 Alabama school systems that are still under active desegregation orders. Just a decade ago, Jefferson County and the city of Gardendale fought a dramatic battle ...