At Dugsi Academy, a public school in St. Paul, Minnesota, girls wearing traditional Muslim headscarves and flowing ankle-length skirts study Arabic and Somali. The charter school educates “East ...

When the Supreme Court abolished the “separate but equal” doctrine in 1954, ... Given Maryland’s own history of segregated institutions of higher education, ...

Segregated again. But equal? 28 years and $252M later, Rockford schools again show a racial divide. Corina Curry. [email protected]. ROCKFORD — Xica Davis-Flannigan never thought her daughters ...

In 1964, a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered all schools desegregated in Brown v. Board of Education, 98 percent of blacks in the South still attended totally segregated schools.

It showed that the most important determinant of student performance isn’t equal funding; it is the socio-economic standing—including education level—of the students’ parents.

The fallout: The case established the doctrine of “separate but equal,” which allowed segregated schools and other facilities for the next 58 years. 1938: Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada ...

Justice: Segregated classrooms violate the 14th Amendment. ... Kansas, with Chief Justice Earl Warren writing that “separate but equal” is “inherently unequal. ...

A century ago, around the time the Court stated that equal facilities for education were being afforded to both races, Mississippi spent $57.95 per white student compared with $8.86 per Black ...

The rationale behind racially segregated classes today sounds a lot like the arguments made by segregationists of days past, ... ‘Separate but Equal’ Is Still Wrong — and Illegal.

A recent study by the Harvard University Civil Rights Project reports that minority students who attend schools with a predominantly minority student body ...

Perhaps the most important in this series is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of a Louisiana statute requiring separate but equal railroad carriages for ...

Sen. Mike Lee, commenting as he blocked legislation that would lead to the creation of a Latino and a women’s history museum as a part of the Smithsonian Institute. Sen. Lee remarked that while ...