The crucible of desegregation : the uncertain search for educational equality /

The crucible of desegregation : the uncertain search for educational equality / R. Shep Melnick.

"In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education--establishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional right--, but the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. In close to three dozen decisions on school desegregation,...

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Main Author: Melnick, R. Shep, 1951- (Author)
Other title:Uncertain search for educational equality.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Series:Chicago series in law and society.
Subjects:
School integration > Law and legislation > United States.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States.
School integration > United States > History.
Education and state > United States.
LAW / General.
Education and state.
School integration.
School integration > Law and legislation.
Segregation in education > Law and legislation.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Why desegregation still matters
  • The great debate
  • Critical junctures
  • Breakthrough : the reconstruction of southern education
  • Supreme abdication
  • Left adrift : desegregation in the lower courts
  • Varieties of desegregation experiences
  • Termination without end
  • Looking beyond courts : ESEA and Title VI
  • What have we learned?

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