The author recounts their experience as a white student bused to an inner-city Louisville school during desegregation 50 years ago. While some Black students resented the integration, the author ...

In September 1975, Jefferson County Public Schools began court-ordered busing under a plan to desegregate local classrooms. The plan required the Louisville and Jefferson County school systems to ...

The desegregation story in Public Schools has included busing, school boycotts and the courts. Has anything really changed?

Despite strong community resistance, court-ordered busing in 1975 Louisville did not result in significant "white flight" out of the county. Studies show a small percentage of white families left, ...

This week marks a major anniversary for a milestone in Louisville's history with desegregation.Fifty years ago, in 1975, thousands of students were forced to bus to new schools all across Jefferson ...

Schools with more white children miss out on smaller class sizes and other benefits, the lawsuit says. The policy dates back ...

To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...

Sixty-nine years ago this month, Rosa Parks, a Black woman in Montgomery, Ala., made civil rights history. On Dec. 1, 1955, a Thursday, after a long day as a seamstress at Montgomery Fair department ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, died ...