Texas Standard, June 2, 2017
In the years that followed the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in “Brown v. Board of Education,” desegregated schools in the south slowly but surely became the norm. And for many years, it stayed that way.
But now, that trend is reversing. A new report by the Civil Rights Project shows that schools in 11 southern states, including Texas, have begun to resegregate. One of the authors, an associate professor of education at Penn State University Erica Frankenberg, says three key Supreme Court decisions on desegregation in the early 1990s led to the reversal.