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"In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes conventional wisdom. In fact, writes award-winning historian Peter Irons, today many of our schools are even more segregated than they were on the day when Brown was decided.
Irons shows how the Court's rulings during the past three decades have revived the Jim Crow system in schools across the country, and how the "resegregation" of American education has contributed to persistent racial gaps in academic skills.".
"In this book, Irons explores the 150-year struggle against Jim Crow education. He weaves a gripping drama from courtroom battles that began with the first case, filed in Boston in 1849, through the victory of NAACP lawyers in Brown, to the erosion of that decision in Supreme Court rulings in the 1990s. Irons paints vivid portraits of lawyers and judges such as Thurgood Marshall, John W.
Davis, Felix Frankfurter, and Earl Warren, as well as captivating sketches of black children like Sarah Roberts in 1849, Linda Brown in 1954, and Kalima Jenkins in 1995, whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools."--BOOK JACKET.
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Trials, litigation, Segregation in education, Law and legislation, History, Civil rights movements, Civil rights, Education, African American children, School integration, Discrimination in education, Trials, Rassenintegration, Schule, Geschichte 1954-2002, Lyzeum Frankenhausen, University of South Alabama, United states, race relations, Education, united states, history, Segregation in education, law and legislationPlaces
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Jim Crow's children: the broken promise of the Brown decision
2002, Viking, Published by Penguin Group
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0670889180 9780670889181
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