pluralistic, 1 month ago to Halifax

That is some straight up devilry right there.

#ViolaDesmond #CanadianMuseumForHumanRights #Winnipeg #Halifax #Desegregation #PettyBullshit #Race

jrefior, 8 months ago to boston

#METCO brought black students in #Boston to ~white school districts starting in 1966

"It worked, because many of the adults I come in contact with talk positively, not about their experience, but about where they are now. If they hadn't gone to that school, as opposed to the Boston Public Schools, they wouldn't be where they are now. So that's the reward of the sacrifices they made during that time."
https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2023/09/26/boston-busing-metco-education-segregation

#education #race #segregation #massachusetts #desegregation

Axomamma, 9 months ago to ukteachers

"... [R]acism is learned behaviour. We pass it on to our kids, and it continues from one generation to the next."

#RubyBridges #Desegregation #Racism #Education

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/06/ruby-bridges-the-six-year-old-who-defied-a-mob-and-desegregated-her-school

QasimRashid, 9 months ago to random

Today, tell your kids about Ruby Bridges—the first Black child at all-white public elementary school in South.

Today Ms. Bridges turns 69.

She's younger than both my parents. And more importantly, she's a reminder of the courage of our youth, of the ever present reality of systemic racism, and of the need to lead with anti-racism to counter this hate.

Let us look to leaders like Ms. Bridges, and build that more perfect union for all people in this country—grounded in true Justice for all

xankarn, 1 year ago to random

Spent an extraordinary afternoon in the National Portrait Gallery, which exceeded all expectations.

“The Struggle for Justice” is an especially powerful exhibition, which I won’t soon forget.

This canvas and label stopped me dead in my tracks.

#history #racism #desegregation #highereducation #museums

Label: In January 1961, following a two-year legal battle, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and fellow student Hamilton Holmes walked resolutely onto the University of Georgia campus as the first African American students to enroll at the all-white public university. Within forty-eight hours of their arrival, students opposed to the pair's admission were rioting outside Hunter-Gault's dormitory and hurling bricks and bottles through her window. Hunter-Gault and Holmes were suspended, ostensibly to ensure their safety. They soon returned under a new court order, "determined as ever to stay the course. Joseph Schwarz, an art professor who helped organize a faculty resolution to reinstate the suspended students, created this portrait. It captures the cool determination that enabled Hunter-Gault to challenge entrenched segregation and earn the journalism degree she fought to pursue at the University of Georgia. In 1988, twenty-five years after her graduation, Hunter-Gault became the first African American to deliver the school's commencement address.

DemocracyMattersALot, 1 year ago to random

Jesus Christ. It's 1954 again.
#Desegregation #Mississippi #BrownVBoardOfEducation

Federal government orders desegregation in 32 Mississippi school districts https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/federal-government-orders-desegregation-32-mississippi-school-district-rcna87296