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More than one struggle : the evolution of Black school reform in Milwaukee / Jack Dougherty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dougherty, Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Education--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.
- African Americans.
- Discrimination in education--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.
- Discrimination in education.
- Educational change--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.
- Educational change.
- Milwaukee (Wis.)--Race relations.
- Milwaukee (Wis.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining greater control over schools.
- Contents:
- Compromising to win black teachers' jobs
- Redefining the local meaning of Brown v. Board
- Calming the "migrant crisis" through compensatory education
- Confronting established blacks and whites on segregation
- Uniting the movements for integration and Black power
- Negotiating the politics of stability and school desegregation
- Transforming strategies for Black school reform
- Conclusion : rethinking history and policy in the post-Brown era.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890871695
- 9780807863466
- 0807863467
- OCLC:
- 70725070
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