When the U.S. Supreme Court ordered school desegregation in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, the court hoped K-12 schools across the nation would give equal opportunities to both Black and white ...
THE BACKGROUND: In 1936, during the height of Jim Crow, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation that would become known as the Dovell Act. WHAT IT DID: The state paid out-of-state tuition and ...