New Report: Segregation Creeps Back After End of Integration Efforts

According to a recent report from ProPublica, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. nearly one in three black students attend a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened.

ProPublica examined 24 years of demographic data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics and found that districts grew steadily more segregated after their desegregation orders ended. A separate 2011 study in the American Economic Journal found that within 10 years of being released, school districts steadily reversed about 60 percent of the integration they had achieved under court order.

ProPublica writer Nikole Hannah-Jones paints a vivid picture of what segregation and desegregation look like as experienced by three generations of family members who live Tuscaloosa. For the full story, which include gripping historical photographs and pictures taken by Masie Crow, head over to ProPublica.