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  2. Mendez v. Westminster - Wikipedia

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    e. Mendez, et al v. Westminister [sic] School District of Orange County, et al, 64 F.Supp. 544 (S.D. Cal. 1946), [1] aff'd, 161 F.2d 774 (9th Cir. 1947) (en banc), [2] was a 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in four districts in Orange County, California. In its ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the ...

  3. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - Wikipedia

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    University of North Carolina (2023) Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute of whether preferential treatment for minorities could reduce educational opportunities for whites without violating the Constitution.

  4. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    More than half of students in the United States attend school districts with high concentrations of people (over 75%) of their own ethnicity and about 40% of black students attend schools where 90%-100% of students are non-white. [10][11] Blacks, "Mongolians" (Chinese), Japanese, Latino, and Native American students were segregated in ...

  5. Does California’s high school ethnic studies requirement need ...

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    August 8, 2024 at 4:46 PM. Next school year, California high school students will be required by law to complete a semester of ethnic studies before graduating. State legislators now are trying to ...

  6. Brown v. Board of Education - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 ...

  7. Ethnic studies - Wikipedia

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    Ethnic studies. Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals. Its origin comes before the civil rights era, as early as the 1900s.

  8. School integration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race -based segregation within American public and private schools. Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American history and remains an issue in contemporary education. During the Civil Rights Movement school integration became a ...

  9. Hobson v. Hansen - Wikipedia

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    Hobson v. Hansen, 269 F. Supp. 401 (D.D.C. 1967), was a federal court case filed by civil rights activist Julius W. Hobson against Superintendent Carl F. Hansen and the District of Columbia's Board of Education on the charge that the current educational system deprived Black people and the poor of their right to equal educational opportunities relative to their white and affluent counterparts ...