segregation

Granddaughter welcomed as guest minister 100 years later.

Fort Worth’s pools are steeped in a history marred by segregation and neglect. However, other cities have managed to claw back their aquatic resources following years of disinvestment. Reporter Rachel Behrndt looked for the answers to the city’s pool problem.

“The whole notion of vouchers. They were originally called segregation vouchers,” said Louis Malfaro, a leader in Pastors for Texas Children.

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

Thursday was the 75th anniversary of the ruling that barred creating separate schools for “Spanish-speaking” children.

In 1963, more than a dozen girls were jailed for about two months in an old, squalid stockade in Georgia for protesting segregation. At StoryCorps, some of them talk about the experience.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the fight for equity in America's schools rages on.

One in five North Texas children lives in poverty, and more than a quarter million are hungry as their parents struggle to feed them.Those are just a few…

Texas has its own claim to the legacy of the American civil rights movement - James Farmer Jr. Born in Marshall in 1920, Jan. 12 would have been the…

Six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court said racially divided schools were unconstitutional, a curious thing has happened. Many school systems are more…

Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. But that didn’t come without a price. It was the era of the…