Brown v Board of Education
October 7, 2021 -
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was built by enslaved Black people but refused to admit Black students until the 1950s and only after a protracted legal fight — and the school continues to struggle around issues of race today. Civil rights attorney Geeta N. Kapur documents UNC's troubling history in her new book "To Drink From the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation's Oldest Public University," which she discussed with Facing South.
December 1, 1994 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 22 No. 4, "Drive-Through South." Find more from that issue here.
August 1, 1994 -
White flight impoverished many public schools, but one community group enriches students by tapping human resources.
August 1, 1994 -
Vanessa Siddle Walker uncovers the forgotten history of segregated black schools.
August 1, 1994 -
Equality must be attained, but not at the expense of diversity and democracy.
August 1, 1994 -
How black citizens in one North Carolina county staged a year-long boycott to save their schools.
March 1, 1986 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 14 No. 2, "Water Politics." Find more from that issue here.
