desegregation
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Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, began insisting on the enforcement of the desegregation mandate of Brown v.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Living in Atlanta in the ’60s and ’70s, she fought for voting rights and school desegregation.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025
Holmes ruling, which ordered the immediate desegregation of Southern schools.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025
The last time the military was deployed without a governor’s request or approval, military experts said, was to facilitate court-ordered desegregation in Southern states during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025
Ellis and Ann Atwater during the early 1970s, when they co-chaired a committee to confront problems associated with court-ordered desegregation in Durham.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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