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News Articles: Desegregation

Zo’e Johnson, 13, attends art class at First Presbyterian Day School. It was among the hundreds of private schools that opened during desegregation as white children fled the arrival of Black students.

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  • Education

What choosing private school means to a Macon family whose matriarch integrated her high school

What is it like for Black students attending one of the formerly whites only private schools created in the South during desegregation?

August 27, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Hawes
Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children's ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 1918, but, like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s.

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  • Health

Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sausser
Georgia State Rep. Edna Jackson, Evalena Hoskins, and Mary Gray pose next to a new historical marker on Tybee Island commemorating the Savannah Beach Wade-Ins of the early 1960s.

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  • History

From ‘whites only’ to Georgia's largest public beach: New marker honors ‘Wade-Ins’ on Tybee Island

The Savannah Beach Wade-Ins of the early '60s are now memorialized near the Tybee Island pier.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Ron McBay and Vic Bolton photographed with new book, 'Transforming The Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools.'

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  • Education

Elite Private School Alumni Reflect On The Desegregation Of Buckhead's Westminster Schools

You may have heard of Ruby Bridges or the "Little Rock Nine" walking through a gauntlet of jeering protestors as they made their way to school. Just a...

April 04, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • La'Raven Taylor

On Second Thought For Tuesday, October 23, 2018

"On Second Thought" explored rural churches, political thrillers and the legacy of the first black graduate at the University of Georgia today. Sonny...

October 23, 2018
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By:
  • Elena Rivera ,
  • Leighton Rowell ,
  • and 3 more
In "The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America," Saint Louis University law professor Anders Walker points to 20th-century writers and intellectuals' arguments against integration as the basis for modern multiculturalism.

'The Burning House' Argues Unconventional Theory On Multiculturalism

Jim Crow laws gave rise to horrific violence, humilitation and race-based terror, which makes "The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern...

October 12, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott

On Second Thought For Monday, June 4, 2018

The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education made segregation of America’s public schools illegal. But decades before Thurgood Marshall...

September 17, 2018
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By:
  • Sean Powers ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • and 5 more
The 1964 Norman Rockwell painting "The Problem We All Live With" depicts six-year-old Ruby Bridges walking to desegregate an all-white public school in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Before 'Brown V. Board,' Girls And Young Women Led Movement To Desegregate Schools

The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education made segregation of America’s public schools illegal. But decades before Thurgood Marshall...

June 05, 2018
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott

On Second Thought For Thursday, April 5, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic ruling Brown v. the Board of Education more than six decades ago. Linda Brown, the namesake of that landmark...

April 09, 2018
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By:
  • Sean Powers ,
  • Tony Harris ,
  • and 5 more
Dr. Roslyn Pope in her home next to her framed "Appeal for Human Rights" document.

Dr. Roslyn Pope Reflects On 'An Appeal for Human Rights'

For Women’s History Month, On Second Thought is paying tribute to Georgia's female trailblazers. Civil Rights icon Dr. Roslyn Pope made history in 1960...

April 04, 2018
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By:
  • Adam Ragusea and
  • Fenly Foxen

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