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Title: Fighting School Segregation in San Bernardino: How Activists Challenged a Geography of Segregation in the 1960s

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Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: This StoryMap traces one step on a long fight for educational justice and racial equality in San Bernardino California. Black and Mexican parents and organizers had long struggled against racial segregation and unequal education in the city as housing segregation had created deeply segregated and unequal schools in the city. But throughout the 1960s, demands for change grew louder as new groups like CORE and the Community League of Mothers organized to press for change. The school district made incremental changes throughout the 1960s and early 70s in response to community pressure, but by 1976 the NAACP won a major lawsuit against the school district which forced more substantial plans to desegregate the schools including busing and magnet schools which transformed the geography of segregation in the city.

Url: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/13d98519b5e2499fa4c6c9eaf606c585

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Authors: Costello, Maile; Gomez, Daniela; Tilton, Jennifer

Publisher: Arcgis

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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