{"id":1459,"date":"2024-06-24T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:34:57","slug":"resisting-resegregation-of-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/resisting-resegregation-of-our-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Resegregation of Our Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared public school segregation was unconstitutional,\u00a0 thousands of all-white private schools opened across the South, hundreds of which still exist.\u00a0 Today, even though many of those schools are church based, state legislatures are finding ways to subsidize them.\u00a0 But the folks in the tiny town of Thomasville, Ala., have found a way to stave off resegregation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/thomasville-alabama-segregation-academies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/thomasville-alabama-segregation-academies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780807032855\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared public school segregation was unconstitutional,\u00a0 thousands of all-white private schools opened across the South, hundreds of which still exist.\u00a0 Today, even though many of those schools are church based, state legislatures are finding ways to subsidize them.\u00a0 But the folks in the tiny town of Thomasville, Ala.,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/resisting-resegregation-of-our-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Resisting Resegregation of Our Schools&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,65,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}