Desegregation

Before Judy Gladney was among the first black students to integrate University City High School, she and her family were the first black people to move…

University City, Missouri, is considered to be among the more diverse communities in a region still grappling with the stubborn legacy of segregation. But…

When Alana Marie was growing up in Hazelwood, she listened to stories of her father’s happy childhood in nearby Kinloch during the 1970s and '80s. By the…

Wanda Ward. Jannard Wade. Malcolm Ryder. Those names probably don’t sound as familiar as Ruby Bridges or the “Little Rock Nine,” who are celebrated…

When Evita Caldwell arrived at St. Louis University as a freshman, she quickly understood a couple of things: First, that she lacked the professional…

Applications for the St. Louis school desegregation program are decreasing, yet there’s still more demand than open slots.At its height in the early…

Since second grade, Mya Petty has taken an hour-long bus ride from Baden, her mostly-black north St. Louis neighborhood, to Chesterfield – where most of…

With St. Louis’ voluntary desegregation program on its final extension, University of Missouri-St. Louis education professor Jerome Morris has been asked…

After area school superintendents voted Friday to phase out the current race-based student transfer program – and possibly replace it with a new one down…

If the voluntary student transfer program that has served more than 70,000 St. Louis area students over more than 30 years is going to continue beyond…