To "defend women from gender ideology extremism," Trump admin legalizes racially segregated public schools, restaurants, drinking fountains

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The Trump administration is signaling it wants to ditch federal desegregation efforts in public school systems, a move that would end much-debated, decades-old programs mainly aimed at improving education opportunities for nonwhite students.

Lifting desegregation policies set by federal rules and court orders — some of them a half-century old — could lead to a wide range of changes in more than 80 school systems Axios has identified as still being under such requirements. Those systems, primarily in the South, would no longer have to follow policies that set flexible transfer rules, school boundary guidelines, diversity hiring goals, and requirements for equal resources among schools, for example. It also would mean that Black and Latino parents in school systems that have been historically resistant to desegregation efforts likely would have less help tackling allegations of discrimination.

This month, the Trump administration moved to dismiss a school desegregation case in Louisiana that began in 1966 in mostly white Plaquemines Parish. Plaquemines schools — like many systems targeted by the government's efforts — were run by white segregationists when Lyndon Johnson's administration sued the district for resisting the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in schools. Now, President Trump's Justice Department says it has "righted a historical wrong" by "freeing" the Plaquemines school board from federal oversight. The DOJ and Plaquemines school officials — who say their district addressed its equity issues long ago — have asked a judge to dismiss the case.

After that announcement, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said she wants to end more desegregation orders in the state. To close desegregation cases, the U.S. government and a school system must agree to end monitoring agreements or get approval from a federal judge in most cases.

rump's administration has been focused on removing programs that have benefited people in historically disadvantaged communities — and on fighting what it has called anti-white discrimination. The administration, for example, has said the U.S. government no longer will unequivocally prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains. Trump also has revoked President Johnson's decades-old order on diversity and affirmative action practices in the U.S. government.

Like those in Plaquemines, some school officials in districts still under desegregation orders say they've met their integration and equity goals — and that the orders still in effect amount to government overreach at a time when enrollments are more diverse than ever. However, civil rights advocates argue that desegregation programs are still necessary, citing ongoing disparities in educational opportunities and test scores. The advocates also point to the "resegregation" happening in many systems, as white students disproportionately leave neighborhood schools for charter and private schools.

At least 84 school districts remain under court orders or federal monitoring agreements, an Axios review found. More than half of those districts — 63% — are in Alabama, Georgia or Mississippi in the South's "Black Belt," a rural and historically impoverished area with large Black populations dating back to enslavement. Another 26% of the districts are in Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Texas.

The Huntsville City (Ala.) system is among the districts that still have active desegregation orders. The district has struggled since 1970 to adjust school zoning policies that often have reinforced racial divides and limited extracurricular activities for Black students, according to court documents. The school district recently filed for a partial release from its desegregation order. The Trump administration's Justice Department didn't object.

Raymond Pierce, president and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation, tells Axios the Trump administration appears to see school desegregation with the disdain it's shown for DEI programs. "They want to blend diversity, equity and inclusion with civil rights," Pierce said. "DEI is good policy, but desegregation is the law." Pierce added that many districts that still have desegregation orders have never adopted effective plans, and have been waiting for an administration that would de-emphasize them.

"These are places that never desegregated seriously, so the chances that minority students will get any response from the courts in the future to violations of rights will vanish," said Gary Orfield, co-director of the UCLA Civil Rights Project.

Noliwe Rooks, author of "Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children," told Axios that desegregation failed to address many Black students' needs — whether that meant upgrading their schools, moving them to better ones or providing equal resources. "How robust was it?" Rooks said of desegregation efforts. "How available was it to all, and where has it led us?"

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/trump-school-desegregation-orders

The Trump administration has announced the federal government will no longer unequivocally prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.

The change announced last month in an overlooked public memo, and comes after President Trump revoked President Lyndon Johnson's decades-old order diversity and affirmative action practices in the federal government.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as many state laws, still makes segregated facilities illegal in all businesses, including federal contractors.

Critics say the recent change sends a message about the government's priorities and potentially eliminates a crucial enforcement tool. The change follows the Trump administration's reinterpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism," rather than discrimination against people of color.

A public memo the General Services Administration issued said the change was needed after Trump revoked LBJ's 60-year-old executive order requiring federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity. A clause in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) said contractors can't "maintain or provide for its employees any segregated facilities." The memo stated that when issuing new solicitations or contracts, agencies could no longer include the clause about the "Prohibition of Segregated Facilities." FAR defined segregated facilities as work areas, restaurants, drinking fountains, transportation, housing and others.

Federal agencies have already started adopting the changes. The Department of Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health, for example, have issued notices not to consider the segregation clause in the future.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, businesses and public facilities in the American South practiced a rigid form of racial segregation with signs directing whites and Black Americans to restrooms and entrances. In Texas, signs ordered whites, Black Americans and Mexican Americans into separate restrooms and facilities. Young civil rights activists challenge those segregation laws with "sit-ins" and nonviolent demonstrations.

LBJ's 1965 order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors' recruitment, hiring, training and other employment practices. It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."

Businesses and contractors can't segregate against members of protected classes, but it will be up to the federal government to investigate alleged violations. The immediate economic cost for contractors is now lifted and opens the door to potentially segregate transgender people or other people if contractors believe they won't face punishment.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/trump-end-segregated-facilities-ban-contracts

 

[Neuromancer]

This will cause black people to ban together.

 

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[feelosofer]

Its almost like he is trying to reverse the Civil Rights Act piece by piece

But hey Project 2025 was just fearmongering, right?

 

[Json]

Between this and the push for public funding religion education these groups are going to end up with a case of actual Muslim schools being opened by accident

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

It’s too late. He can try to push Jim Crow and segregation policies until he turns purple. The country is too diverse so it will all be temporarily. Biden reverse most of Trumps policies when he took office and when Democrats get control again, they will do the same.

Poor white MAGA’s once again will realize they’re still poor and republicans won’t save them will stay home next year and in 2028 will stay home again once they realize Trump isn’t going to be on the ballot.

So all of these end of the world narratives are meaningless.

 

[HimmyHendrix]

fake news fukk trump tho

 

[NYC Rebel]

fake news fukk trump tho

Why is this goofy allowed to post?

 

[Rekkapryde]

It’s too late. He can try to push Jim Crow and segregation policies until he turns purple. The country is too diverse so it will all be temporarily. Biden reverse most of Trumps policies when he took office and when Democrats get control again, they will do the same.

Poor white MAGA’s once again will realize they’re still poor and republicans won’t save them will stay home next year and in 2028 will stay home again once they realize Trump isn’t going to be on the ballot.

So all of these end of the world narratives are meaningless.

hope you right...but I don't have any faith in cacs.

 

[HimmyHendrix]

Why is this goofy allowed to post?

we in the same city come do some bout it

 

[NYC Rebel]

we in the same city come do some bout it

You’re welcome to Brownsville

 

[HimmyHendrix]

You’re welcome to Brownsville

nikka you not from the ville and you not wooo i will pull ya card right now you fake ass nigerian im on tapscott right now goofy ass nikka talking bout he from the hood

you is not from here

who are you out here please tell me

 

[tuckgod]

Why is this goofy allowed to post?

You sound just like your auntie

 

[tuckgod]

nikka you not from the ville and you not wooo i will pull ya card right now you fake ass nigerian im on tapscott right now goofy ass nikka talking bout he from the hood

you is not from here

who are you out here please tell me

She’s a little tether harlot, descendent of fun girls and flexy men that serve at the Kings pleasure.

 

[HimmyHendrix]

She’s a little tether harlot, descendent of fun girls and flexy men that serve at the Kings pleasure.

that’s a man bro. not a lady.