It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers approve a plan for new US House primaries if courts allow different districts.
May 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).
phone keeps trying to autocorrect “resegregate” to “desegregate”
February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
phone keeps trying to autocorrect “resegregate” to “desegregate”
That might lead to an uncomfortable conversation about the media's failure to desegregate yet.
January 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
That might lead to an uncomfortable conversation about the media's failure to desegregate yet.
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
Whether it's Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. fighting to desegregate public restrooms or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. snorting cocaine off of toilet seats, toilets play a key role in the history of the Kennedys.
February 15, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Whether it's Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. fighting to desegregate public restrooms or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. snorting cocaine off of toilet seats, toilets play a key role in the history of the Kennedys.
A fun fact about Sausalito is my grandfather worked to desegregate the school district and then 50 years later it got hit with a court order saying it needed to desegregate again.
"We have run others out of our town who try to ruin our town"
Oh? How are people trying to ruin the town Sausalito?
"we don't want you here or your young kids this is an adult community"
OK, but everyone knows that young kids need to be run out of the Bay Area. Can you be more specific? /1
Oh? How are people trying to ruin the town Sausalito?
"we don't want you here or your young kids this is an adult community"
OK, but everyone knows that young kids need to be run out of the Bay Area. Can you be more specific? /1
January 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
A fun fact about Sausalito is my grandfather worked to desegregate the school district and then 50 years later it got hit with a court order saying it needed to desegregate again.
We drained our public swimming pools in the 1960s rather than desegregate them.
March 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We drained our public swimming pools in the 1960s rather than desegregate them.
Pats fans bout to be madder than the day they had to desegregate schools in Boston.
January 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Pats fans bout to be madder than the day they had to desegregate schools in Boston.
It's ALL because they're still furious that Brown vs Board of Education ordered them to desegregate schools and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally required them to desegregate the workplace.
January 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's ALL because they're still furious that Brown vs Board of Education ordered them to desegregate schools and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally required them to desegregate the workplace.
"desegregate"
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September 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"desegregate"
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L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state politicians and threats on his life, died last month. He was 100.
L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100
As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state politicians and threats on his life, died last month. He was 100.
Sigh. Schemes to desegregate American schools fail because most white parents don't want their kids going to school with significant numbers of Black kids, as Nikole Hannah-Jones pointed out over a decade ago.
Two decades ago, Cambridge embarked on a novel approach to integrating its schools, using family income rather than race to help determine which schools students attend.
But that approach has fallen well short of its goal. Cambridge now has one of the most segregated schools in the state.
But that approach has fallen well short of its goal. Cambridge now has one of the most segregated schools in the state.
Cambridge tried to get better racial and economic diversity among students. Now it has one of the most segregated schools in the state. - The Boston Globe
Data show wide disparities in the distribution of low-income students and those of different racial backgrounds among the district’s schools, according to a Globe review.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sigh. Schemes to desegregate American schools fail because most white parents don't want their kids going to school with significant numbers of Black kids, as Nikole Hannah-Jones pointed out over a decade ago.
No. Eisenhower did it when Arkansas refused to desegregate schools.
June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
No. Eisenhower did it when Arkansas refused to desegregate schools.
“the right to desegregate schools whether its Jim Crow or DEI” holy fuck do these people hear them fucking selves????
September 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“the right to desegregate schools whether its Jim Crow or DEI” holy fuck do these people hear them fucking selves????
In Virginia they closed many public schools for everyone rather than desegregate because of the Brown v Board decision.
Same folks, different decade is all 🤷🏾♀️
Same folks, different decade is all 🤷🏾♀️
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
September 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In Virginia they closed many public schools for everyone rather than desegregate because of the Brown v Board decision.
Same folks, different decade is all 🤷🏾♀️
Same folks, different decade is all 🤷🏾♀️
Ike sent in the 101st Airborne to desegregate Little Rock. Worked well, but the backlash was so severe that later presidents resolved never to do the same thing, if they could possibly help it.
January 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Ike sent in the 101st Airborne to desegregate Little Rock. Worked well, but the backlash was so severe that later presidents resolved never to do the same thing, if they could possibly help it.
As we approach Juneteenth, I want to point out something. The last freed slaves were freed years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The last school in the United States to desegregate did so, finally, in 2016. Half a century after Brown.
The winning fights are LONG.
The winning fights are LONG.
June 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As we approach Juneteenth, I want to point out something. The last freed slaves were freed years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The last school in the United States to desegregate did so, finally, in 2016. Half a century after Brown.
The winning fights are LONG.
The winning fights are LONG.
Fred Rogers sharing a pool with Officer Clemmons in 1969, to consciously support the nationwide effort to desegregate public swimming pools.
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Fred Rogers sharing a pool with Officer Clemmons in 1969, to consciously support the nationwide effort to desegregate public swimming pools.
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago…
Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
September 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago…
Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
After SCOTUS’ May 1954 unanimous “Brown v. Board of Education” decision, elementary schools in Hillsboro, OH defied the court order.
#tdih 1954, “Marching Mothers” sued the school district & began a nearly two-year pressure campaign to successfully desegregate elementary schools in Hillsboro. ⬇️
#tdih 1954, “Marching Mothers” sued the school district & began a nearly two-year pressure campaign to successfully desegregate elementary schools in Hillsboro. ⬇️
Sept. 22, 1954: Hillsboro’s “Marching Mothers” Sue to Desegregate Schools
The “Marching Mothers” of Hillsboro sued the school district and began daily marches to desegregate elementary schools in this town in Ohio.
www.zinnedproject.org
September 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM
After SCOTUS’ May 1954 unanimous “Brown v. Board of Education” decision, elementary schools in Hillsboro, OH defied the court order.
#tdih 1954, “Marching Mothers” sued the school district & began a nearly two-year pressure campaign to successfully desegregate elementary schools in Hillsboro. ⬇️
#tdih 1954, “Marching Mothers” sued the school district & began a nearly two-year pressure campaign to successfully desegregate elementary schools in Hillsboro. ⬇️
Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
This is a point I make to people too:
We didn't desegregate water fountains... We abolished water fountains.
We didn't desegregate water fountains... We abolished water fountains.
February 24, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This is a point I make to people too:
We didn't desegregate water fountains... We abolished water fountains.
We didn't desegregate water fountains... We abolished water fountains.
Happy 72nd Birthday Ruby Bridges🎉
Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate & attend an all white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation.
Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate & attend an all white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation.
September 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Happy 72nd Birthday Ruby Bridges🎉
Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate & attend an all white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation.
Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate & attend an all white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation.
fucking desegregate
September 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
fucking desegregate