EDUC Midterm (1950-1980)

Ruby Bridges

6 year old child who was first black child to integrate all-white elementray schools in New Orleans in 1960.

Minnijean Brown-Trickey

One of the Little Rock Nine who help desegregate schools in Arkansas in 1957.

Paulo Crisotomo

Student activist who helped organize the 1968 East Los Angleles school walkouts for better classes and opportunities.

Judith Heumann

Disability activist who fought for equal access to education and helped create Section 504.

Virginia Uribe

Educator who founded Project 10 and supported LGBTQ students.

Patsy Mink

Congresswoman who helped create Title IX to prevent gender discrimination in education.

Thurgood Marshall

NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v Board Education and fought school segregation.

Lyndon Johnson

US president 1963 - 1969) who expanded federal education funding and created Head Start.

Severita Lara

Student activist who fought for better education for Mexican American students in Crystal City; Texas.

Brown v Board of Education (1954)

Supreme Court ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Topeka, Kansas

City where Brown v Board case begun.

Title IX (1972)

Law banning gender discrimination in federally funded education programs.

Head Start (1965)

Federal funded program that provided early education for low income families created by Margaret D. Jones.

Bilingual Education Act (1968)

Law providing federal funding to support students with a limited English proficiency.

Section 504 (1973)

Law banning disability discrimination in federally funded programs.

NAACP

Civil rights organization that fought racial segregation and discrimination

Project 10 (1984)

School program created by Virginia Uribe to support LGBTG students for a safer learning environment.

Factors Impacting Boston Public Schools

• Housing segregation (redlining)

• School policy

• government action

• racism and community resistance

Court-Ordered Busing

implemented in September 1974 to integrate schools

Solutions for Boston Schools

• busing

• increased funding

• fair housing policies

• magnet schools