Disability rights upended by Trump DOJ : NPR

For nearly 50 years, the federal government has said people with disabilities should live, work and learn in the most integrated setting possible rather than be segregated in institutions like nursing homes. 

The Trump administration just took its most concrete step yet to reverse that position… 

 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5981375/integration-mandate-disabilities-reversed-trump

 

Trump’s attack on the federal workforce is an attack on the Black middle class

"…It's impossible to separate conservative animosity toward the federal government from conservatives' history of opposing integration and Black progress. And Trump attacking the federal workforce as he rolls back civil rights edicts and DEI initiatives means we don't have to pretend they're unrelated.."

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-dei-federal-workers-civil-rights-rcna188966

 

In the 1950s, rather than integrate some public schools, Virginia closed them

…county officials shuttered the schools to avoid desegregating them, using a tactic to evade the law: they refused to appropriate taxes to pay for the school year. A foundation was created to support private education for white students; later tuition grants were offered. The Black students were on their own…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/27/integration-public-schools-massive-resistance-virginia-1950s