Author: Southern States Cooperative Program in Educational AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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A Series of Five Studies of Education in the South
Author: Southern States Cooperative Program in Educational AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Series of Five Studies of Education in the South: Public school revenue trends, 1940-1952, by G. N. Drewry
Author: Southern States Cooperative Program in Educational AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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A Series of Five Studies of Education in the South: Trends in school-age population, enrollment, and attendance, by Glen E. Robinson
Author: Southern States Cooperative Program in Educational AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Southern Stalemate
Author: Christopher BonastiaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226063917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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In 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens public education. Investigating this remarkable and nearly forgotten story of local, state, and federal political confrontation, Christopher Bonastia recounts the test of wills that pitted resolute African Americans against equally steadfast white segregationists in a battle over the future of public education in America. Beginning in 1951 when black high school students protested unequal facilities and continuing through the return of whites to public schools in the 1970s and 1980s, Bonastia describes the struggle over education during the civil rights era and the human suffering that came with it, as well as the inspiring determination of black residents to see justice served. Artfully exploring the lessons of the Prince Edward saga, Southern Stalemate unearths new insights about the evolution of modern conservatism and the politics of race in America.
Public School Expenditure Trends
Author: James B. KincheloePublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: Research in Education
Author: The Abridgment
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Brown v. Board of Education
Author: James T. PattersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!" Here, in a concise, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?
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