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Edmonds, Matthew C. – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
In 1969, four years after passage of the Voting Rights Act, African Americans in Greene County, Alabama, reclaimed control of local government, becoming the first community in the South to do so since Reconstruction. A half century later, however, Greene County remains an impoverished and largely segregated area with poor educational outcomes,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Counties, School Segregation, School Choice
Wever, Sarah E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, the University of Alabama's 19th president, was president during a time of controversy. A native of Alabama, President Carmichael was aware that segregation was a deep-rooted tradition in the South, and, having worked in New York, he was aware of the progressive liberal ways of the North. President Carmichael found…
Descriptors: College Presidents, School Segregation, African American Students, Racial Discrimination
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Taylor, Kendra; Frankenberg, Erica – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Political boundaries have historically been used to both segregate and integrate populations by social characteristics. Researchers have investigated the concentration of poverty, yet less attention has been given to the concentration of affluence, despite growing income segregation of the affluent from middle and low-income households. While the…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Socioeconomic Status, Income, School Segregation
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Taylor, Kendra; Frankenberg, Erica; Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve – AERA Open, 2019
The establishment of new school districts in predominantly White municipalities in the South is restructuring school and housing segregation in impacted countywide school systems. This article compares the contribution of school district boundaries to school and residential segregation in the Southern counties that experienced secession since…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Districts, Counties, Geographic Regions
Richards, Meredith P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
"Gerrymandering" is known best as a tool to manipulate boundaries for voting districts, but school districts have long used the same tool to manipulate school boundaries. The author used geospatial techniques--mapping various kinds of demographic data onto school boundaries--to examine public school attendance zones and their effect on…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Racial Segregation, School Districts, Geographic Location
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Burt, Janeula M.; Dorsey, Dana Thompson; Dawkins-Law, Shelby Eden; Floyd, Camile Fears; Williams, Cherish – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Extant research has shown that students do better academically and socially when they are in schooling environments that are racially and socioeconomically diverse (Coleman, 1966). To date, there is very limited research which has examined the development of adolescents' racial, ethnic, and social identities within the contemporary contexts of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Racial Identification, Identification (Psychology)
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Hale, Jon – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper focuses on how shifting conceptions of youth underpinned young people's activism in the 1950s and 1960s. This paper specifically examines conceptions of youth as it changed throughout the twentieth century. G. Stanley Hall articulated a distinct notion of "adolescence" in the early twentieth century. But the "Scottsboro…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Youth, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes
Richards, Meredith P. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
In this study, I employ geospatial techniques to assess the impact of school attendance zone "gerrymandering" on the racial/ethnic segregation of schools, using a large national sample of 15,290 attendance zones in 663 districts. I estimate the effect of gerrymandering on school diversity and school district segregation by comparing the…
Descriptors: Attendance, School Districts, School Segregation, Racial Segregation
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Morowski, Deborah L. – American Educational History Journal, 2013
After the Civil War, schooling for African Americans was irregular and consisted mainly of elementary grades. Education was provided, primarily, by elite, private institutions and fewer than three percent of students aged 13-17 attended regularly. In 1896, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in "Plessey v. Ferguson." Although…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Hidden Curriculum, School Segregation, Court Litigation
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Pierson, Sharon – American Educational History Journal, 2010
This brief paper captures only a glimpse of the faceted experiences of Alabama State College Laboratory School's students, teachers, and administrators during a period of dramatic societal changes. It is a response to the call for more scholarship in the history of Black education during this period and for case studies of schools that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Laboratory Schools, Black Colleges, School Segregation
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Pierson, Sharon – American Educational History Journal, 2009
This paper presents an early phase of a research on the history of Alabama State College Laboratory School, 1920 to 1969. The research contributes new, critical history to the current story of segregated schooling and offers a more complete picture as to the richness that the African American culture, community, and dedication to educational…
Descriptors: African Americans, Laboratory Schools, State Colleges, African American Education
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Karpinski, Carol F. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
When H. Councill Trenholm wrote that "we have a long way to go", he fully understood the barriers that African-Americans faced in securing educational equity in the twentieth century, particularly in the segregated South. He also was keenly aware of the importance of education to community development, human development, and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Higher Education, Equal Education, Teacher Associations
Gershenberg, Irving – J Negro Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Resources, Public Education, Public Schools
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Brooks, F. Erik – Journal of Negro Education, 2004
The impact of the Knight v. Alabama ruling by looking at undergraduate student demographic data for historically African American Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University and traditionally American Auburn University and the University of Alabama is discussed. To eradicate the remaining residue of discrimination and segregation, the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, School Segregation, Black Colleges
BLACKFORD, STAIGE D.; LONG, MARGARET – 1964
IN THE DECADE SINCE THE SUPREME COURT DECISION OF 1954 SOUTHERN STATES HAVE DEVISED SCHEMES TO PREVENT SCHOOL DESEGREGATION. MOST OF THEM ARE NOW ELIMINATED OR REJECTED AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY FEDERAL COURTS. ONE PLAN TO EVADE INTEGRATION WHICH THE COURTS HAVE NOT YET OVERTHROWN IS THE TUITION GRANT OR "FREEDOM OF CHOICE" SCHEME. THIS…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Private Schools, Regional Attitudes, School Segregation
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