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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsResegregation in the American South
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/04/segregation-now/359813/***SNIP
The reason for the decline of Centrals homecoming parade is no secret. In 2000, another federal judge released Tuscaloosa City Schools from the court-ordered desegregation mandate that had governed it for a single generation. Central had successfully achieved integration, the district had arguedit could be trusted to manage that success going forward.
Freed from court oversight, Tuscaloosas schools have seemed to move backwards in time. The citywide integrated high school is gone, replaced by three smaller schools. Central retains the name of the old powerhouse, but nothing more. A struggling school serving the citys poorest part of town, it is 99 percent black. DLeisha, an honors student since middle school, has only marginal college prospects. Predominantly white neighborhoods adjacent to Central have been gerrymandered into the attendance zones of other, whiter schools.
Tuscaloosas schools today are not as starkly segregated as they were in 1954, the year the Supreme Court declared an end to separate and unequal education in America. No all-white schools exist anymorethe citys white students generally attend schools with significant numbers of black students. But while segregation as it is practiced today may be different than it was 60 years ago, it is no less pernicious: in Tuscaloosa and elsewhere, it involves the removal and isolation of poor black and Latino students, in particular, from everyone else. In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened.
Tuscaloosas school resegregationamong the most extensive in the countryis a story of city financial interests, secret meetings, and angry public votes. It is a story shaped by racial politics and a consuming fear of white flight. It was facilitated, to some extent, by the citys black elites. And it was blessed by a U.S. Department of Justice no longer committed to fighting for the civil-rights aims it had once championed.
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Resegregation in the American South (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2014
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WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)1. The GOP Southern strategy. nt
ananda
(28,858 posts)2. Civil Rights in name only these days.
Wow.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)3. I don't think this is just happening in the south
The school district I grew up in (Michigan) was desegregated but now appears to be segregated again.