People seldom hear how a #California #Latino family (#PuertoRican & #Mexican) set key legal precedent for #BrownVBoardOfEd. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1946, they won their case, #MendezVWestminster, shutting down CA's #segregated school system that kept white & Hispanic kids apart.
#segregated
#missouri #unitedstates #westplains - Avenue Theatre: The Avenue Theatre in downtown West Plains has been host to many strange events. Built in 1950 as a . . . Read: https://hauntedlineage.com/directory/avenue-theatre
#RESIST! #NAACP Sues #DepartmentOfEducation Over #DEI Rollbacks: Here's What To Know
The nation's oldest #CivilRights group says the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity and inclusion programs is unconstitutional and disproportionately harms #BlackStudents.
April 19, 2025
"The NAACP is suing the U.S. Department of Education over recent efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in schools. In a federal complaint filed in Washington, D.C., the organization alleges that the Department of Education’s recent directives are unconstitutional and discriminatory—particularly for Black students.
"The complaint faults the administration for targeting programs that offer '#truthful, #inclusive curricula,' as well as policies that expand access to selective educational opportunities for #BlackAmericans and foster belonging while addressing #racism in schools.
"The NAACP argues that the Department’s recent actions 'advance a misinterpretation' of federal civil rights laws and Supreme Court precedent—actions that, according to the group, violate its members’ rights to equal protection and to be free from viewpoint discrimination under the #USConstitution.
"NAACP President Derrick Johnson criticized the move, stating that the administration is 'effectively sanctioning' the very discrimination that U.S. civil rights laws were designed to prevent
" 'The Department of Education, tasked with a responsibility to protect the civil rights of all children, has instead claimed #SystemicRacism doesn’t exist — effectively sanctioning the very discrimination that our civil rights laws were designed to prevent while children of color consistently attend #segregated, chronically underfunded schools where they receive less educational opportunities and more discipline,' said Johnson."
#BlackLivesMatter #USPol #Resistance #TrumpIsARacist #CharacteristicsOfFascism
@BusinessInsider @military-defense-BusinessInsider I need. Many of our fathers shed blood and dodged bullets for this country. And let it not be forgotten that many units in our armed forces were #segregated during World War II!
[Video] Inside a #JimCrow #asylum
#AntoniaHylton explores the #story of #Crownsville #Hospital, one of the last #segregated #asylums in the #USA
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Maryland #MentalHealth #History #Segregation #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #BlackMastodon
https://www.historyextra.com/membership/video-inside-jim-crow-asylum/
“When whole groups of people become #segregated from others in our society, it weakens the fabric of our democracy. Distance and segregation are breeding grounds for failures of understanding and empathy and ultimately injustice and the denial of others’ rights.”
(from "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist" by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner): https://a.co/7tabqYF
This story is a fragment of the broader #history of a substantial #AsianCanadian population in #qathet, as evidenced by the 1921 & 1931 #Census data. Companies like #PacificLimeCompany on #TexadaIsland & various lumber camps from #Stillwater to #Lund employed #Asian #Canadian labourers, often paying #Chinese men half the wages of their white counterparts.
#Segregated bunkhouses & employment of #ChineseServants by white households were common.
The #Extraordinary #Story of #Black #Librarian #BelleDaCostaGreene
A new #exhibition at the #MorganLibrary explores the #legacy of its #inaugural #director, who amassed a trove of #rare #books and #prints while passing as a #White #woman in #segregated #America.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #NewYorkCity #History #RoleModels #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
Are #sports #segregated by #gender because most existing sports were from an era when #women were more rarely #athletes, and tend to favor #male proficiencies?
Prediction: More #future sports blending #athletics & #fantasy
#entertainment.
Watch #KristySellars, mom of three and #poledancer, weave an #otherworldly #action #adventure around her #skills.
Let's make sports #coed, honor/reward the most impressive #performances by athlete-artists of whatever sex/gender!
streets had #segregated bike lanes, and when we walked to Fishermans Warth, I was shocked to see some of them in what seemed like a #residential street. A segregated bike lane on both sides of the road along the entire street. Even though some of it was blocked by #construction, [4/7]
The Guardian: ‘At the private hospital, the disrespect was just more subtle’: a tale of America’s two healthcare systems
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/jan/23/us-hospital-segregation-racism-public-private
"... I can count on one hand the number of times anyone broke the silence about the existing #segregated system of healthcare. When someone did, it was usually a Black person or person of color ..."
Care4Calais to sue government faces over asylum seekers’ treatment at RAF Wethersfield | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/care4calais-legal-challenge-government-suella-braverman-asylum-seekers-raf-wethersfield-refugees-sue/
#Braverman
#AsylumSeekers
#Care4Calais
#Court
#RAFWethersfield
#Segregation
#QuasiDetention
#QuasiPrison
#Segregated
At the Tip of the Javelin: #Sport, #Capital, and the #FarRight.
#Capitalist #scarcity and #precarity in #sport makes it a useful tool for shaping the kind of #society that the #antitrans #farright desires, while the #segregated nature of modern #sport is used to create #narratives about who #deserves this #victory.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Sports #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-13/editorial-drought-nonfunctional-grass
#TragedyOfEnclosure #dispossessed #indigenous communities for #BigAgro, #corruptpoliticians, and #ViolentRanchers to grow #segregated #cities ornamented with useless #turf: Limiting #thirsty, nonusable #landscaping is doubly important right now because California, Nevada and Arizona are negotiating for #shares of the shrinking #ColoradoRiver.
#affirmativeaction: This next phase targets #admissions policies in K-12 schools, and is an effort to maintain the #statusquo, even as #American #publiceducation grows increasingly #segregated.
#equalprotection #accesstoqualityeducation #socialconsequences #corruptrobertscourt #EqualSociety
the #devastation is compounded by specific #histories of #unfairness. As she wrote me the other day: “#Divestment, decades of #neoliberal policy—#Detroit became the hole in the donut, surrounded by #segregated, sometimes but not always #wealthy, #hostile #suburbs Water was central to the struggle
Bucolic #segregated #suburban lifestyles ravaged by a Black River stirred up by outside agitators like #ClimateChange.
#MomsForLiberty may be new to US politics, but their strategy isn’t
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s had a women’s auxiliary (the #WKKK) that brought the Klan’s anti-Black, antisemitic, anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant politics to places like schools and churches.
But even the women of the WKKK were not political pathbreakers; Though White women had only just secured the right to vote in the United States, women had been mobilizing politically for decades.
Precisely because women had long been excluded from electoral politics, however, they had tended to be most active in institutions considered part of the “women’s sphere”: #schools, #churches, #charities and #settlement houses.
For the women of the WKKK, schools were central targets. As historian Kathleen Blee documents in “Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s,” the WKKK regularly protested schools that they felt were riddled with #Catholic and #foreign #influences.
Particularly because they were so invested in countering Catholics, the WKKK sought to secure more funding and support for public schools as counterweights to private parochial schools. But they wanted those public schools to be #segregated and #overtly #Protestant.
"The #Court cements a superficial rule of #colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically #segregated society where #race has always mattered and continues to matter," Sotomayor wrote.
"The devastating impact of this decision cannot be overstated. The majority's vision of race neutrality will entrench racial #segregation in higher education because racial #inequality will persist so long as it is ignored."
https://www.businessinsider.com/scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-colorblind-2023-6
The #white #evangelical movement prior to 1980 was largely #supportive of #abortion #rights.
They were furious, however, when the Supreme Court #banned preacher-led #school #prayer and in the late 1970s Jimmy Carter pulled the #tax #exemptions of #segregated #schools run by white evangelicals.
Jerry #Falwell had started his “Moral Majority” in 1978 and uber-Christian Paul #Weyrich (co-founder of The Heritage Foundation and the guy who famously said, “I don’t want everybody to vote!”) signed up for the Reagan campaign.
As Donne Levy writes for George Washington University’s History News Network:
“Weyrich and Falwell realized that the tax exemption issue based on racial discrimination had limited value, but #opposing #abortion was a moral issue cutting across racial and religious lines. That was their thinking on the eve of the 1980 elections.”
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