Horace Mann Bond was influential in the integration of Lincoln (Pennsylvania) University. He was the first black to become president of the school (1945—1957) and became dean of the School of Education at Atlanta University in 1957.

The 1954 class-action suit named after eleven-year-old Linda Brown, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, ended racial segregation in the public schools.

Autherine Lucy was admitted to the University of Alabama by court order in 1957. After riots broke out, university officials removed her from campus. She made several allegations against the university regarding her poor treatment which resulted in her permanent expulsion from the school. This action made her a symbol of the struggle of desegregation.

Sol Markoff, associate general director of the National Child Labor Committee, in 1952 criticized Congress for spending $6.5 million yearly to study migratory birds and refusing to fund $181,000 for better education...