Busing began in Denver in 1974 when a federal judge ordered the city to desegregate its schools.

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From 1975 to 2000, for example, the Jefferson County school district remained under a court order to desegregate.

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The military also responded to need when it began to desegregate its forces.

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Tongue in cheek and hand on heart, Waters re-imagined the civil rights movement as the struggle to desegregate The Hop.

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But a 1974 case from the Detroit metro area "slammed the door shut, " Douglas said, on attempts to desegregate Northern urban areas.

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Obama also retold the story about the Greensboro Four --students who did more than participate in a sit-in at Woolworths to desegregate lunch counters during the 1960s.

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" It followed that decision with another ruling a year later -- widely called "Brown II" -- that called on segregated school districts to desegregate "with all deliberate speed.

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After the ruling not to merge school districts, a group of people who called themselves "Joshua Intervenors" sued the Little Rock district, saying it had not done enough to desegregate.

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According to his memoir, Mind Your Own Business, he volunteered to teach black children in Prince Edward County in Virginia in 1963 after local authorities closed the county schools rather than desegregate.

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Professor ORFIELD: No, it really hasn't been a predominantly southern problem since 1970, about a third of a century, because the south was really forced to desegregate by the Civil Rights Act and the Johnson administration.

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