Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary EducationPublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Hearings on Higher Education Civil Rights Enforcement
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Hearing on the Federal Enforcement of Equal Education Opportunity Laws
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in education
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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?
The Federal civil rights enforcement effort--1974
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort--1974: To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1932
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Investigation of Civil Rights Enforcement by the Department of Education
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description