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Hanks, Lawrence J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
On January 20, 2009, essentially 200 years after the enactment of the embargo against the slave trade, 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America. Using the one drop rule for racial designation which has prevailed in the USA for most of its history,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, United States History, Race, Criticism
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Cooper, Robert; Chizhik, Estella Williams – Journal of School Public Relations, 2004
The "Brown v. Board of Education" of 50 years ago was perhaps the most significant school reform implemented in American education. The goal of this landmark decision was to end public school segregation and introduce racially integrated schools. Now in the 21st century and clearly in the shadows of this decision, we argue that the hope…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Racial Segregation, School Segregation