The crucible of desegregation : the uncertain search for educational equality / R. Shep Melnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melnick, R. Shep, 1951- author.

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

Chicago scholarship online.

The Chicago series in law and society

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School integration--Law and legislation--United States.

School integration.

Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States.

Segregation in education.

School integration--United States--History.

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

In 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education - establishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional right - but the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. The Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for evaluating competing interpretations. R. Shep Melnick examines the evolution of federal school desegregation policy from 1954 through the termination of desegregation orders in the first decades of the twenty-first century, combining legal analysis with a focus on institutional relations, particularly the interactions between federal judges and administrators.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. Why Desegregation Still Matters

2. The Great Debate

3. Critical Junctures

4. Breakthrough: The Reconstruction of Southern Education

5. Supreme Abdication

6. Left Adrift: Desegregation in the Lower Courts

7. Varieties of Desegregation Experiences

8. Termination without End

9. Looking Beyond Courts: ESEA and Title VI

10. What Have We Learned?

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-82551-5

OCLC:

1373348906