The View from Topeka
Tags: BROWN v. Board of Education of Topeka (Supreme Court case); SCHOOL integration; RACE relations in school management; DISCRIMINATION in education
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- DESEGREGATION DISCUSSIONS IN LINCOLN PARISH DURING THE CRUCIAL SUMMER OF 1969. Buck, Emily // North Louisiana History;Spring/Summer2009, Vol. 40 Issue 2/3, p47
The article presents an exploration into the desegregation policies and debate within the educational system of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana in 1969. Details are given contextualizing the major issues of the year, noting the federal government mandates for integration in the aftermath of the Brown...
- Disciplined Consequences of Brown. Matthews, Frank L. // Black Issues in Higher Education;5/20/2004, Vol. 21 Issue 7, p4
Focuses on the impact of Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case in Clarendon, South Carolina. Discrimination faced by a student at Sumter High; Impact of the case on the nature and value of discipline.
- In Topeka, a New Trial Opens in Historic Case. // Education Week;10/15/1986, Vol. 6 Issue 6, p2
The article reports that the new trial regarding school desegregation case in Brown v. Board of Education has opened in Topeka, Kansas. The current plaintiffs charge that school officials and the state board of education have failed to desegregate the city's schools effectively. Lawyers for the...
- Bridging the racial divide. // Christian Century;7/24/2007, Vol. 124 Issue 15, p5
The article discusses the nature of racial integration in schooling and its importance of defeating racism and inequality in education and social conditions. The invocation and revocation of the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka to bring about and then ban forced...
- Public Schools Died Here. Goodman, Irv // Saturday Evening Post;4/29/1961, Vol. 234 Issue 17, p32
Focuses on the struggle against segregational system of education in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Decision of segregated public schools to abandon free education rather than integrate; Efforts of the white community to establish their own private education through the help of nonprofit...
- The Costs of Brown: Black Teacher and School Integration. Fairclough, Adam // Journal of American History;Jun2004, Vol. 91 Issue 1, p43
Examines the attitudes of many African American teachers in the South towards school integration as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Brown versus Board of Education segregation case. Reasons that many African American teachers in the South were against school integration;...
- The Chief Justice, Racial Segregation, and the Friendly Critics. Heyman, Ira Michael // California Law Review;Mar1961, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p104
Examines the U.S. Supreme court decision on Brown versus Board of Education over racial segregation in education. Effect of the fourteenth amendment on public education; Constitutionality of segregation in education; Information on how Afro-Americans interpret racial segregation.
- In black and white. Hendrie, Caroline // Education Week;03/24/99, Vol. 18 Issue 28, p25
Argues that desegregation continues to be a sharply disputed issue though the `Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka' decision in 1954 opened the door to equal education for students of all races in the United States. History of school segregation and desegregation in the century; Emergence of...
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954). Wynn, Linda T. // Freedom Facts & Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil ;2009, p164
Information about the civil rights case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas is presented. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case required the desegregation of schools across the nation. The ruling affirms that the existence of permissive public school segregation in the several...
