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To accept change in its own. >> a decade later, the fight to integrate schools famously exploded in boston. >> i dont think that this country can take too much more appeasement to the blacks at the expense of the whites. >> efforts to integrate boston public schools by busing white and black children from the area schools to other schools were greeted with violence, boycotts. >> thousands of whites marched through south boston today to protest court-order busing for racial integration. black stu...

Term. most school kids have ridden buses for as long as there have been school buses and it was once it became a tool for integration that we had a problem with it. kids ride buses every day. i do think its clear that no one is willing to really do that anymore. so we do have to come up with other solutions. >> do you think part of this has to do with -- the thing that was so interesting to me in new york was what you see is in the absence of a plan to desegregate schools, in the absence of poli...

There for integration than there are integrated spaces. >> thats a great point. >> city governments dont give enough incentive and support for parents who want diversity for their kids. i often hold up the example of hartford and the surrounding region. through a lawsuit and multiracial coalition of city and suburban parents, that region, that region has built 48 magnate schools that allow kids from all different backgrounds, particularly disadvantaged kids to access high quality schools that ar...

Holding of brown. restricting what methods schools could use to achieve racial integration. finally, in 2007, the roberts court struck down a voluntary plan to integrate seattle and louisville schools. roberts writing that the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. now, 60 years after the supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education, many of the countrys school districts remain as segregated as they were in 1954. many of the ...

Their children, saying their children were lying. i have got to tell you, there were classic signs in this case of grooming. this fascination with these boys. she must have known. she should have known. when i prosecuted cases, it is still a very unpopular position. i wanted to go after the mothers. these are witnesses to sex abuse abuse, enablers, putting children in danger and partly responsible. >> sunny hostin, thank you. >> next, former taliban captive, sergeant bowe bergdahl, the new phase...

Busing. its a very political term. most cool kids have ridden busses a long as there have been school buses. only when it became a tool of integration there was a problem. kids ride school buses every day. its clear that no one is really willing to do that anymore so we have to come up with other solutions. >> do you think part of this has to do if -- the thing that was so interesting to me in new york was what you see is in the absence of a plan to desegregate schools, in the absent of policy a...

Were back talking about how american schools resegregated. joining me now nicole hannah jones, she covers civil rights and has been contributing to a special series, segregation now, and sheryl, law professor at georgetown university, author of the failures of integration. let me start with you, nicole. i thought the quote from gary orefield, the director of the civil rights project in setting up how it is 6 other years later we have schools as segregated as we are. he said the truth is we tried...

People lost their minds. like, oh, you just took my kids from one of the good school seats and put them in one of the bad school seats. the research suggests its the opposite of zero sum. there are gains from everyone put into desegregated, integrated environments, right? >> thats right. i think that doesnt get talked about nearly enough. its always talked about that black and brown kids will benefit and seldom talked about the white kids benefit from integration as well. >> exactly. >> i think ...

Predominantly white neighborhood school. and thats not an anomaly. the fact is 60 years after brown, one truth has become very clear. in the absence of constant vigilance, dedicated principals, parents, teachers, and policymakers, our schools will segregate. the integration of park slope collegiate is a story of a specific school in a specific neighborhood. all across the country there are schools grappling with how best to integrate and stay integrated. coming up, ill be joined by someone who s...

For integration than there are integrated spaces and unfortunately federal and state government and even city governments dont give enough incentives and support to parents who want diversity for their kids. but i often hold up the example of hartford and the surrounding region, through a lawsuit and a multiracial coalition of city and suburban parents, that region, that state has built 45 magnet schools that allow kids from all different backgrounds, particularly disadvantaged kids and high pov...