We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation

How black and white school administrators, teachers, parents, and students in a Florida county shifted from segregated schools to a single, unified system.

After Brown v. Board of Education, the South's separate white and black schools continued under lower court opinions, provided black students could choose to go to white schools. Not until 1968 did the NAACP Legal Defense Fund convince the Supreme Court to end dual school systems. Almost fifty years later, African Americans in Alachua Co...