Special documentary for Friday, November 27, 2009 - The Resegregation of American Schools

Segregated schools sound like a relic of America’s Jim Crow past. Legal separation that relegated Black students to substandard facilities and resources was “officially” done away with Brown vs. Board of Education. But segregated schools are making a comeback in practice. According to the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Black and Latino students are more segregated now than they’ve been for more than four decades, and white students are continuing to be the most racially isolated. Brown vs. Board of Education required local school boards to desegregate, but in the 1990's the Supreme Court decided that if a school board had dealt with segregation in principal, it was not required to deal with ongoing segregation in practice caused by factors such as “white flight.” Other Supreme Court rulings followed suit and over the last 20 years, students have become increasingly isolated along racial lines. In this documentary, FSRN Karen Miller takes a look at the re-segregation of US schools.

This documentary features the music of Kid Cholera.