school desegregation
July 15, 2014 -
In a scathing ruling issued last month, a federal judge in Alabama said she could not "conclusively" determine that the Huntsville City School District wasn't still operating an unconstitutionally segregated system -- so she refused to approve a student assignment plan that had been proposed by the school board.
May 6, 2013 -
Though the Supreme Court rejected nullification after Southern states tried to use it to avoid desegregating public schools, the concept is now being deployed by gun rights advocates -- and not just in the South.
February 19, 2013 -
The current debate over charter schools in Mississippi appears to be the latest battle in a longstanding war on public education -- and on teachers' unions.
February 1, 2013 -
A by-the-numbers look at how claims of "states' rights" -- once used to defend racial segregation -- are being used to justify legislative assaults on the interests of economically struggling citizens in North Carolina, Mississippi and elsewhere across the 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 -
Forty years after Summerton won its historic fight for integration, segregated schools still hold the town back.
August 1, 1994 -
Equality must be attained, but not at the expense of diversity and democracy.
