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Author Wolters, Raymond, 1938-

Title Race and education, 1954-2007 [electronic resource] / Raymond Wolters.

Imprint Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 313 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Constitutional history and social science -- School reform in the 1950s -- Desegregation begins -- In the deep south -- Desegregation transformed -- Educational reform in the 1960s -- The travail of integration -- Controversy over white flight and the effects of racially balanced integration -- From Brown to Green and back -- The diversity rationale.
Summary "Retracing Supreme Court decisions on race and education beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Wolters distinguishes between desegregation and integration and shows how devastating educational and cultural consequences resulted from subsequent Supreme Court decisions that conflated the two and led to racial balancing policies that have backfired"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject School integration -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780826218285 (cloth : alk. paper)
0826218288 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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