In the 1960s and 1970s, high school student-led activism successfully reshaped school districts across the country.

Explore AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's documentaries that ... parents and teachers who integrated a small Mississippi town's public schools in 1970. When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully ...

In addition to no longer being the majority, income growth for this segment of Americans is sluggish, the report finds. Since 1970, median income has risen for all classes of households ...

including a county-by-county comparison of high school and college graduation rates in 1970 compared to the most recent Census data, which are five-year American Community Survey estimates for ...