Children of the dream : why school integration works

"The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our nation's history. Yet looking back from the present day, we judge the integrationist...

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VerfasserIn: Johnson, Rucker C.
Nazaryan, Alexander
Ort / Verlag / Datum:New York : Basic Books, April 2019
Erscheinungsjahr:2019
Ausgabe:First edition
Sprache:Englisch
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Klassifikation:370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
379.2630973
Beschreibung:xii, 320 pages; Illustrationen, Diagramme; 24 cm
Anmerkungen:Literaturangaben
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: The dream deferred
  • Forward march. Before Brown-and beyond
  • The integrated classroom
  • Equality promised, equality denied
  • Getting ahead with Head Start
  • Putting the pieces together
  • The dream reversed. Busing in Boston: "We won't go to school with n-rs."
  • How Charlotte (briefly) got it right
  • The battle of Jefferson County
  • Memphis City school blues
  • Conclusion: Coming up together