Describes the historical efforts of economically, politically, and socially oppressed black communities across the segregated U.S. south to give their children a quality education, highlighting rural Prince Edward County, Virginia. In an attempt to circumvent Brown v. Board of Education (1954), white leaders closed every public school in the…

A recent report that up to 70% of the nation's African-American and Hispanic elementary and secondary school students are in classrooms with predominantly minority enrollments has been received by civil rights leaders with little surprise. The trend toward increasing segregation is most apparent in the Northeast and South. (MSE)

Explores de facto school segregation in Hartford (Connecticut) and reviews the Sheff v. O'Neill decision, in which the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the combination of de facto racial segregation and class segregation deprived students of substantially equal educational opportunity. A controlled choice approach is proposed to address…

Reviews literature on segregated schools in the south during the era of de jure segregation. Results indicate that exemplary teachers, the curriculum and extracurricular activities, parental involvement, and the leadership of school principals were critical characteristics influencing the communities' perceptions of the schools. (Author/SLD)

Provides a review of the literature on African American history and education, discussing four historical phases of scholarship and covering topics such as scholarship on African American women, segregation in public education, and criticism of "Brown v. Board of Education." Includes an extensive bibliography. (CMK)

Describes a century of failed schooling for African American students, explaining how in the early 1900s, southern black schools were grossly inadequate and underfunded. Examines the writings of Thomas Jesse Jones and W.E.B. DuBois. Discusses attempts to change the educational system after World War II, efforts toward school desegregation, and…

Northern Ireland endured a quarter century of political violence from 1969 until the declaration of ceasefires in 1994. Although a political settlement was signed in 1998, the actual implementation of agreed institutions has proved to be very difficult and the actual institutions have been fragile (and are currently under suspension). The purpose…

Most Americans are keenly aware of the African American civil rights movement. However, few know about the comparable struggle of Mexican Americans to enjoin the practice of segregated public schools in the Southwest. This article analyzes "Mendez v. Westminster School District," a 1946 federal court case that ruled that separate but…

The "Brown v. Board of Education" decision remains one of the most important legal decisions in history. Although there were local schemes used to avoid desegregating public schools after the decision, black students experienced declining segregation from the 1950s to the late 1980s. During the 1990s, however, a series of Supreme Court decisions…

Using institutional data on fall 1999 freshman admissions, we document the existence and magnitude of inequalities among California high schools in the access they provide to the University of California (UC). Because high schools are segregated by socioeconomic status and race, we examine how schools that differ on these dimensions also differ in…

Many supporters of school choice argue that neighborhood assignment to public schools results not in diversity, but in the opposite: schools that are less likely to contain a diverse mix of students and that are more internally segregated along racial lines than are schools of choice. In recent years, a number of empirical studies of the effects…

To discover possible correlates of decisions in desegregation cases, the social background of the judges, variables from their environments, community linkages, and school district variables are examined in Southern school-desegregation cases. Order from Manning J. Dauer, Managing Editor, Journal of Politics, Department of Political Science,…

Despite years of litigation the desegregation of United States public schools remains unfinished. Even after court-ordered desegregation, a school district may remain segregated through various practices such as ability grouping and selective discipline of minority children. These second generation discrimination or resegregation practices have an…

The selected papers presented in this document include topics on normal schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota, George S. Counts, and segregated schooling in Kansas. "Wisconsin Normal Schools and the Educational Hierarchy, 1860-1890" (J. Wasserman) describes the struggle of normal schools to be perceived as teacher training institutions…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, notes that what is faced in this country is the dismantling of a system of segregation and planned deprivation, both aspects of which were protected by the U.S. Supreme Court within a period of three years between "Plessy va Madison" 1896, and the…