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Former VICC Students Share Experiences With Busing As Program Winds Down
As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris clashed in the Democratic presidential debates over the issue of busing, viewers may have thought of these programs as being in the past. That’s not the case in St. Louis — the city has the longest-running and largest desegregation program in the nation.
Schools Determining Culture
In this article Hope Rias, author of St. Louis School Desegregation, explores how revisiting school desegregation policy might decrease racism.
St. Louis School Desegregation: Patterns of Progress and Peril (Historical Studies in Education)
This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St. Louis, Missouri. Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for re-examination of school desegregation, Rias delves into the connection between contemporary school segregation and social justice, probing the ways that “soft racism”―a term the author uses to describe the non-violent, yet equally harmful, types of protests that opponents of desegregation utilized―has permeated St. Louis since the days of Brown v. Board of Education.
The chapters feature the voices of those who were central to the desegregation fight in St. Louis, showing how the devastating effects of school segregation and soft racism linger today.
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