school integration

Examines the Louisville, Kentucky court case that officially ended the era of school desegregation.

Discusses the history of legal challenges to segregation in the United States focusing on the crisis surrounding the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with eyewitness accounts from both black and white students at the high school.

Describes the unfair system of education in the United States called segregation and how nine African American students attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Eddie and Lakeesha Russell become the first African-American students at an all-white high school in the South and face racism and cruelty from their fellow classmates; but when cheerleader Nancy Martin crosses the racial divide to support Eddie and Lakeesha, a cycle of violence ensues that threatens the whole school.

African-American teens Joe Billy King and Cilla Handsom face hatred and violence when their school is integrated with the local all-white school and gain a strength and courage that will follow them throughout their lives.

A retrospective look at the 1957 integration of nine African-American students into Little Rock Central High School that provides a look at the school fifty years later and discusses the event.

The true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was one of the first African American students to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.

Story of Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter, whose determination to build a better life led them to take advantage of new civil rights laws in 1965 and send their children to an all-white school in Sunflower County, Mississippi and whose family suffered threats, deprivation and torture as a result.

Presents an arguement by law scholar Derrick Bell that because of the perversity of racism, "Brown v. Board of Education" underminded African-American children's educational needs.