The Problem We All Live With

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

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    Schools are Desegregated

  • Ruby Bridges attends an all white school

  • Massive desegregation begins

    In standardized reading tests in 1971, black 13 year olds tested 39 points worse than white kids.
  • Peak of United States school integration

    The difference between white and black reading scores were just 18 points by 1988 at the height of desegregation.
  • Missouri State Board of Education pulls accreditation for Normandy School District

  • Students from Normandy begin getting bussed to Francis Howell

  • Missouri State renames Normandy School to Normandy Schools Collaborative

    School remains non-accredited and students have to come back