Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...school system to a three-school system with "exclusively white schools, exclusively colored schools, and mixed schools." And Johnston was confident that, so long as white parents had access to vouchers...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...(2023). "Florida’s Private Schools 2022–23: School Year Annual Report," https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7562/urlt/PS-annualReport2023.pdf; Alec MacGillis, “Private Schools, Public Money: School Leaders Are Pushing Parents to Exploit Voucher Programs,” ProPublica, Jan. 21, 2024, https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-parents-ohio-public-funds....
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Oliver, who also served as principal of East High School. Through the fall and spring of the 1956-57 school year, the two men patiently guided the school board toward approval...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Peninsula - As the Hon. Wm. L. Scott See It," Philadelphia Times, April 18, in PE, April 25, 1885. The Pennsylvania Railroad did not purchase the capital stock of the...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...workers and writes that the town of Lockhart was divided racially by "a small grove of pine trees" and had separate white and black schools and churches. Out in the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...Hispanosphere, April 25, 2011, accessed April 27, 2011, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/osceola/os-ed-darryl-owens-65th-infantry-042320110423,0,7289179.column. In November of 2010, I participated in a voluntary teach-in sponsored by the Osceola County school district. I visited two classrooms...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...past and the resilience of community. "Break[ing] That School In" Virginia began high school at South Cobb High, a formerly all-white high school which was already desegregating.8Until the county schools...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...residents "placed tremendous strains on [school] facilities" (29, 20). This required building new schools at an astonishing rate. Even with 44 elementary schools, fifteen middle schools, and twelve high schools...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...