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Direct linkFine, Michelle – American Psychologist, 2004
Interviews with African American and White American elders capture the immediate power of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision and the biography of its impact over time. This article reviews the lived experience of the decision and theorizes 3 threats to sustainability that ruthlessly undermined the decision over time: (a) the…
Descriptors: African American Community, Justice, African American Students, Racial Segregation
Fields, Cheryl M. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Judge John H. Pratt held that under a 1984 Supreme Court ruling, the civil-rights organizations that had pursued the "Adams case" no longer had the legal standing to continue it. He found it was "speculative" whether the cutoff of federal funds would lead discriminatory states to change their actions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Desegregation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Peer reviewedBarnett, Marguerite Ross – Social Policy, 1985
Considers school desegregation in light of: (1) its relationship to the structure of American racism; (2) its status as a form of racial public policy; and (3) the shift in public policy toward narrower views of the proper government role. Outlines an interpretation of school desegregation in relationship to broader dynamics of American social…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education
