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The First Serious Implementation of Brown: The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Beyond
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The Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board found state-imposed segregation of public schools in violation of the U. S. Constitution; however, implementing this ruling in thousands of local school districts required local plaintiffs, money, and data. A decade passed without significant school desegregation. In 1964, Congress enacted a comprehensive Civil Rights Act that authorized the U.S. Attorney General to bring legal action against segregated school systems on behalf of plaintiffs...
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The politics of principle: Richard Nixon and school desegregation.
The Journal of Negro History
; In many ways Richard Nixon chose a terrible time to be President. He followed an Administration which comprehensively safeguarded civil rights and financed education. Through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the Higher
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Is school desegregation still a viable policy option?
PS: Political Science & Politics
; Mandatory school desegregation is not usually seen as a success story. Most citizens and elected officials disfavor it; judges increasingly are withdrawing courts from active involvement in or even oversight of racially mixed school districts; interest groups and educators are focused on other
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Film on school desegregation in Nashville set for public premiere Sept. 11 at library
Tennessee TRIBUNE, The
; Tennessee TRIBUNE, The 09-08-2005 Sept. 9 marks 48th anniversary of school desegregation in Nashville NASHVILLE, Tenn. - What difference did cross-town busing make in the efforts to integrate Nashville's schools? What was gained and what was lost through school desegregation? What challenges remain
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Clotfelter, Charles T.: After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books
; Clotfelter, Charles T. After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 216 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-691-11911-2 Publication Date: April 2004 Charles T. Clotfelter's After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation joins a tidal wave of new
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1964 Civil Rights Act ushered in new era of opportunity.
Dallas Morning News
; Byline: Michelle Mittelstadt WASHINGTON _ Forty years ago July 2, Congress dealt a deadly blow to the laws and practices that had long kept black Americans living apart, divided from the jobs, education and social activities open to whites. With a stroke of his pen in a nationally televised
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1964 Civil Rights Act ushered in new era of opportunity.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Byline: Michelle Mittelstadt WASHINGTON _ Forty years ago July 2, Congress dealt a deadly blow to the laws and practices that had long kept black Americans living apart, divided from the jobs, education and social activities open to whites. With a stroke of his pen in a nationally televised
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The consequences of school desegregation.
The Nation
; In The Consequences of School Desegregation, Willis Hawley, Christine Rossell and their colleagues eschew apocalyptic conclusions from either end of the ideological spectrum. Although far closer to Hochschild than to Wolters, they lean toward the very incrementalism the Hochschild rejects. Shunning
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Connecting the dots: Grutter, school desegregation, and federalism.
William and Mary Law Review
; TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. GRUTTER AND DEFERENCE II. SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND LOCAL CONTROL A. Brown II B. Title VI C. Milliken I, Milliken II, and Jenkins II D. Unitary Status E. Summary and Implications of Local Control III. DEFERENCE AND LOCAL CONTROL IV. FEDERALISM LESSONS A. Local
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The new face of school desegregation.(Latino segregation in public schools)
Duke Law Journal
; INTRODUCTION In 1998, the balance tipped: for the first time, Latinos and Latinas(1) comprised a greater percentage of the national school-age population than did African Americans.(2) Within forty years, Whites will become a statistical minority in the United States' school-age population(3and in
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed face of America
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... face of America Controversial bill opened legal doors to people of all races, genders By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT Dallas Morning News Sunday, July 4, 2004 Washington -- Forty years ago, Congress dealt a deadly blow to the laws and practices that had long kept ...
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