The long road to integration
More than 70 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court sent shockwaves throughout the South with its ruling on Brown v Board of Education. Desegregation in public schools became the law of the land, but change didn’t happen overnight. In North Carolina, it took decades for public schools to fully integrate — and now, much of that desegregation work is coming undone.
Featuring:
Liz Schlemmer, education reporter at WUNC News
Links:
WUNC News: The Long Road to Integration
Cover image: Black and white school children on a school bus, riding from the suburbs to an inner city school in Charlotte, North…
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