{"id":22019,"date":"2014-05-12T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22019"},"modified":"2014-05-12T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:41:50","slug":"remembering-early-desegregation-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/05\/12\/remembering-early-desegregation-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Early Desegregation In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22021\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Mamie Pinder, holds a photograph of herself as a young teaching student. Pinder, a retired Miami-Dade school teacher, began teaching in 1963, the year the school district began merging black and white students bodies and faculty.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/Brown-Vs-03-EKM.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22021\" alt=\"Mamie Pinder, holds a photograph of herself as a young teaching student. Pinder, a retired Miami-Dade school teacher, began teaching in 1963, the year the school district began merging black and white students bodies and faculty.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/Brown-Vs-03-EKM-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/Brown-Vs-03-EKM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/Brown-Vs-03-EKM-620x413.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emily Michot \/ Miami Herald<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mamie Pinder, holds a photograph of herself as a young teaching student. Pinder, a retired Miami-Dade school teacher, began teaching in 1963, the year the school district began merging black and white students bodies and faculty.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This weekend marks the\u00a060th\u00a0anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education\u2014the Supreme Court decision declaring separate schools were inherently unequal.<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/lack-of-order-the-erosion-of-a-once-great-force-for-integration\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/lack-of-order-the-erosion-of-a-once-great-force-for-integration\">ProPublica<\/a>\u00a0investigation found at least 300 school districts that are still under court-ordered desegregation. Eleven of those districts are in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Miami-Dade County had those\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccr.gov\/pubs\/022007_FloridaDesegreport.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.usccr.gov\/pubs\/022007_FloridaDesegreport.pdf\">desegregation orders lifted<\/a>\u00a0relatively recently in 2001, it was an early state leader in desegregation, putting black and white children and black and white teachers in the same schools.<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact\u00a0Florida collected memories from some of those students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>A note to listeners, this story contains strong language:<!--more--><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22019-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/BrownVBoard_web.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/BrownVBoard_web.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/05\/BrownVBoard_web.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>David Smiley and Emily\u00a0Michot\u00a0of the\u00a0<\/em><em>Miami Herald<\/em><em>\u00a0contributed to this story. Some of these stories came to us from the Public Insight Network, an online community of people who have agreed to share their opinions with The Miami Herald and\u00a0WLRN. Become a news source for\u00a0WLRN\u00a0by going to WLRN.org\/Insight.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend marks the\u00a060th\u00a0anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education\u2014the Supreme Court decision declaring separate schools were inherently unequal. A recent\u00a0ProPublica\u00a0investigation found at least 300 school districts that are still under court-ordered desegregation. Eleven of those districts are in Florida. Even though Miami-Dade County had those\u00a0desegregation orders lifted\u00a0relatively recently in 2001, it was an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[948,947],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22026,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019\/revisions\/22026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}