In the United States, school students were often segregated based on their race. While not prohibited from having or attending schools, various minorities were barred from most schools that admitted w
In 1960, U.S. marshals were needed to escort Ruby Bridges to and from school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as she broke the State of Louisiana's segregation rules.
Students in a one-room school in Waldorf, Maryland (1941)
Quote from Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education case, hung at the Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas, USA
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Little Rock in Sept. 1957, after the governor of Arkansas tried to enforce segregation.
In the United States, school integration is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public, and private schools. Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American
School segregation in the United States
…Americans in the South were called training schools instead of high schools in order to appease racist whites and focused on vocational education. School integration in the United States took place at different times in different areas and often met resistance. After the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which invalidated…
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957
Protest of the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1959