Segregation
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3 women who desegregated New Orleans public school as girls recall the experience, 60 years later: 'I was afraid'
From that point on, due to a boycott by white families, the three girls became the only students left to attend for the duration of the school year.
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'Where we live is segregated': A look inside one of America's most racially divided suburbs
Long Island, N.Y., remains one of the 10 most segregated places in America.
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People aren't thrilled about Kamala Harris selling 'That Little Girl Was Me' T-shirts: 'Hollow and calculated'
The California senator is selling T-shirts stemming from her heated comments on segregation to former VP Joe Biden at the Democratic debate.
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Black and White Students Forced to Share Valedictorian Honors at Formerly Segregated School, Lawsuit Alleges
Sherry Shepard claims her daughter Jasmine Shepard (pictured) was discriminated against by her school when forced to share her valedictorian title at graduation. In her suit, Sherry Shepard of Cleveland, Mississipi, alleges that Jasmine Shepard was forced by her school to share her valedictorian title with a fellow student, even though the other student’s grade point average was lower than Shepard’s. As reported in the Washington Post, the suit was filed early last week in federal court and po