Martin, Emily
Health is poor and care inadequate: infant mortality in the ghettoes is more than twice the rate outside, mental retardation among Negroes caused by inadequate prenatal care is more than seven times the white rate; one-half of all babies born in Manhattan last year will have had no pre...
The Little Rock Nine's action in 1957 helped force the actual desegregation of public schools three years after a historic decision by the Supreme Court, and 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker of Iowa fought for her right to protest the war in Vietnam by wearing a black armband in school in ...
This paper describes teacher attitudes and circumstances during and after Dayton City School's successful desegregation. Teachers were moved to integrated schools relatively early and easily. As a group, they did not become involved in the 1972-76 busing brouhaha that accompanied court-ordered desegre...
Flash forward to now and the schools and neighborhoods in Fairfax County are much more racially diverse but they are also much more economically diverse than ever before. Options: Reply•Quote Re: For all the old heads what was segregation actually like? Posted by: .AARPer. () Date: Mar...
What I wanted, more than anything, was a few days' rest... 我最想要的就是能休息几天。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 She had been in what doctors described as an irreversible vegetative state for five years... 她处于医生所说的不可逆性植物人状态已经5年了。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 Meanwhile, most young ...
School funding based on property values and residential taxes, combined with racial segregation in housing, has led to systemic underfunding of predominantly Black schools. Low-poverty districts that are primarily White spend almost $2,000 more per student than low-poverty districts where most students...
In some ways, HSIs are similar to historically Black colleges and universities, with a track record of enrolling minority populations that often have been underserved at predominantly white institutions. However, unlike HBCUs, which were founded specifically for Black students amid segregation, many HS...
What is affirmative action and why do schools use it? Affirmative actionin college admissions is a policy of taking an individual student’s race or ethnicity into account during the selection process. Since the 1960s, seeking to overcome a legacy of segregation and inequality in ...
Early implementations of affirmative action largely focused on halting the continued social segregation of minorities and other disadvantaged individuals from institutions and opportunities. Despite legislation that outlawed discrimination practices in the U.S., tangible change in the status quo was not immed...