(left) Four college students protest segregation at Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. in February 1960.
The school was the site of the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre, when police killed three people and wounded 27 after firing into a crowd of students protesting segregation at a bowling alley.
Mr. Murphy said the group has discussed issues of critical interest to students, such as segregation and diversity, harassment, homework policies, student citizenship and responsibilities, and school violence and security.
We had no illusions even as militant, student advocates, that segregation which is legally, socially and culturally imposed on African-Americans was a good thing.
He includes references to Lafayette's refusal to play in the bowl game, the student protest against segregation, and the phone call between Lafayette's president and the Sun Bowl Committee in El Paso, Texas.
We observe that students' between-school segregation as measured by school fixed effects explains around six points of the immigrant-native achievement gap in mathematics, which is around 11%% of the total gap (panel a).
Latino students may experience segregation differently depending on when they came to this country or where their family is from, for example. .
Consider the 1963 picture of fire hoses and snarling police dogs in Birmingham, Ala., used against African-American students protesting racial segregation.
Richard Humphreys founded the first HBCU, Cheyney University, in Pennsylvania in 1837, like many subsequent HBCUs it dedicated itself to providing higher education for black students during the segregation era.
On the other hand, the problem could be more serious; the achievement gap between immigrant and native students might well be affected by the social segregation of students across schools with different resources and students' background (Schneeweis 2006; Entorf and Minoiu 2005).
