schools to integrate
TBHC35 years ago…
June 11, 1971 – Under Federal court order, the Hillsborough County School Board votes to fully integrate the public school system. This vote came seventeen years after the Supreme Court struck down legal segregation in the Brown v. the Board of Education case.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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June 11th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
It took that long?
June 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
You seen how the county govt runs now, are you surprised?
June 11th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
I guess I’m just a yank who is kind of sad and shocked and scared now, that fairly young people are all over the area and once or still hold views that segregation is a good thing.
June 11th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
I can vividly remember the summer of ‘71 when school systems all over the south basically folded their anti-integration hands, under the threat of court ordered busing. I was a rising 6th grader in Virginia and was totally oblivious to the fact that cities like Norfolk had shut down their public school systems after Brown rather than follow the directions of the SC. A lot of schools opened late that year while school systems scrambled to change attendance lines and forces opposed to integration held “anti-busing” rallies. A lot of private schools got their start in the early 70s as segregation academies. Such a sad chapter, and not at all ancient history.
June 11th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I remember in junior and part of high school when students still seemed to “self segregate” as late me my 1993 graduation. I understand this is no longer the case as kids now care little for race issues.
June 11th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
My kids went to Ballast Point School lucky to walk only two blocks.. Stop and think about those black kids from Port Tampa City
see how far they had to ride a bus all the way across Tampa to go to school.. Figure on spending 3 to 4 hours a day just riding.
I remember riding the bus to Twin Lakes.. In 1940 only bench seating on bus it went from front to back no separate seats.. No automatic transmission for driver all stick shift on the floor, no power steering etc.. Remember a couple of kids passed out because of the heat… As someome once said, “Them Were The Days”
June 12th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
i’m currently a junior in high school and it is still very segregated. to me it seems like this issue will always stick around.
June 13th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
But is it segregated because of racial issues, or is it segregated just like any social group self-segregates? People with common interests or other commonalities tend to congregate with people who have like interests or commonalities.
I mean, it’s easier for a kosher Jew to have dinner with another kosher Jew, so just because they choose to segregate themselves, is it really that bad?
Segregating out of social choice is one thing. I believe what desegregation did was remove segregation as being a forced element by government and society in general. I mean, a black person should be allowed to congregate with another black person, but it should be by choice, not by requirement.
So, that’s the difference.