# UCLA Civil Rights Project

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-24**: DOJ terminates 50+ consent decrees — Civil Rights Division announces the end of decades-old desegregation orders, calling them onerous and outdated.
- **2025-01-20**: Trump begins second term — Administration takes office; 57 desegregation cases are eventually dropped over the following months.
- **1960**: Desegregation consent decrees entered — Federal courts enter consent decrees across the 1960s and 1970s requiring Southern districts to dismantle Jim Crow-era dual school systems.
- **1954-05-17**: Brown v. Board of Education decided — Supreme Court rules racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### DOJ Ends 50+ Desegregation Consent Decrees, Testing Brown v. Board
2026-09-28 03:35:14 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

The DOJ's termination of 57 school desegregation consent decrees tests the unitary-status doctrine established by Green and Dowell, removing court oversight without a demonstrated elimination of segregation's vestiges. The move signals a major shift in federal civil rights enforcement and invites intervention and new litigation from advocacy groups.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/doj-ends-50-school-desegregation-consent-decrees

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