Black students board the bus home on first day of integration: 1956

Black students in Poolesville, Maryland in Montgomery County board a school bus September 5, 1956 for a ride home as the first schools were integrated in the county following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

The integration and equalization of education opportunity has proved elusive in the years following the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing so-called “separate but equal” facilities.

Initial desegregation orders produced less than the promise of equal education. Twenty years after the Supreme Court decision, federal court orders to achieve equal educational opportunity through school busing also produced little as relatively wealthier white parents moved out of counties and cities where busing was ordered, depriving local jurisdictions of tax revenue and thwarting integration of schools.

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Photo by William Klender. The image is an auction find.

Taken on: September 5, 1956

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