The long road to integration

More than 70 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court sent shockwaves throughout the South with its ruling on Brown v Board of Education. Desegregation in public schools became the law of the land, but change didn’t happen overnight. In North Carolina, it took decades for public schools to fully integrate — and now, much of that desegregation work is coming undone. Featuring: Liz Schlemmer, education reporter at WUNC News Links: WUNC News: The Long Road to Integration Cover image: Black and white school children on a school bus, riding from the suburbs to an inner city school in Charlotte, North Carolina on February 21, 1973 (Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.