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Tightening the Belt
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Lily Geismer
Published: 21 December 2014
... by as working-class whites and blacks in the city endured the burden of school integration. However, the residents along Boston's Route 128 belt were not as removed from the events and issues as those depictions might suggest. The discussion about METCO during this period of turmoil illuminates how the various...
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Published: 15 April 2011
..., the city faced a great deal of racial
turmoil. Galamison and the movement for school integration directly challenged the image
of New York City as a shining example of urban liberalism. Civil rights activists
consistently argued that racial discrimination was not limited to the South; the largest
school...
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The Right to Education: A Battle Still to Be Won
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Anne Revillard
Published: 29 March 2023
... to a full realization of the right to inclusion, and the very active role of students and families to overcome them. education inclusive education mainstream schools school integration special education parents relationships with school inclusion higher education Law of 1975 Law of 2005...
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The Effects of Socioeconomic School Integration Policies on Racial School Desegregation
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Sean F. Reardon and Lori Rhodes
Published: 15 November 2011
...This chapter the effects socioeconomic school integration policies on racial school desegregation. It begins by presenting a brief historical overview of socioeconomic status-based student assignment (SBSA) plans. It then discusses it prevalence of SBSA plans in school districts. Before discussing...
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Maintaining a “Commitment to Everyone” Toward a Vision of Equitable Development in Urban Public Schooling
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Linn Posey-Maddox
Published: 18 March 2014
... resources. It offers a new way to think about and address the role of middle-class parents in school integration efforts, based on the goal of producing equitable development in public education. The chapter concludes with a focus on education policy and practice, providing several recommendations...
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The Parkmont Environment
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Rachael A. Woldoff
Published: 17 March 2011
... and the implementation of school integration policies in the 1970s. It then examines the demographic, cultural, and physical changes that occurred in Parkmont over time. It also takes a look at the three key groups: the white stayers, the black pioneers, and the black second wavers. The stories of blacks and whites who...
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Right Man, Wrong Job
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Charles C. Bolton
Published: 01 October 2013
... Democratic Party Republican Party Silver James Jim Wallace George white moderates Williams John Bell Alexander v Holmes school integration White Citizens’ Council Bailey Junior High School Brown v Board of Education Friends of Public Schools Murrah High School St Andrew’s Episcopal School...
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Busing
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Rob Christensen
Published: 13 May 2019
...Although the U.S. Supreme Court had outlawed school segregation in 1954, it was not until 1969-70 that full school integration occurred in North Carolina. Scott presided over a troubled period marked by violence, distrust, and a strong parent backlash. Charlotte v. Mecklenburg also became...
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Threats Within: Black Southerners, 1954–1956
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Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Published: 18 January 2018
..., with parental authority eroded by a federal government. Because school integration eroded their ability to secure the benefits of white supremacy for their children, it compromised their ability to be good mothers. They called for school choice, lobbied for local choice plans, and worked for the white Citizens...
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Focusing on the Family: Private Schools and the New Shape of Segregationist Christianity
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J. Russell Hawkins
Published: 20 May 2021
... desegregation segregationist Christianity South Carolina school integration In the fall of 1876, Wade Hampton, a cotton planter and former Confederate general whose wealth and military exploits won him widespread fame in South Carolina, was elected governor of the state. His election being ...
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Published: 22 July 2021
... of school integration. They called for community control over administration, curriculum, pedagogy, and hiring in majority Black schools and called for desegregation plans to be halted. Student activists demanded Black history courses, fairer discipline and dress code policies, and more respect for Black...
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“War against the Constitution”
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Peter Irons
Published: 18 November 2021
... Brandywine High School Wilmington DE Highland Park High Topeka KS Howard High School Wilmington DE William Penn High School Wilmington DE Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court John W. Davis Chief Justice Fred Vinson Chief Justice Earl Warren Little Rock school integration Cooper v. Aaron...
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Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
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Brian Purnell
Published online: 26 September 2013
Published in print: 08 May 2013
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Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality
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Pamela Grundy
Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 05 September 2017
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Published: 22 July 2021
.... Chapter 1 examines the earliest debates over school integration in Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Jamaica (New York), and a number of smaller towns. It argues that Black northerners viewed integrated public schools as essential to abolishing slavery, establishing Black citizenship, and eliminating racial...
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Published: 22 July 2021
... integration, September 13, 1965. Photograph by Dick DeMarsico. New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Chapter 3 highlights a resurgence of northern Black support for school integration alongside...
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Published: 22 July 2021
...Figure 5.2. Large and diverse crowd at the NAACP March on Boston, 1975. Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections, Boston, MA. Figure 5.1. Protestors demanding school integration at the NAACP March on Boston, 1975. Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections...
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Conclusion
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Zoë Burkholder
Published: 22 July 2021
...Figure C.1. High school students in Montclair, New Jersey, at a Black Lives Matter Rally, 2020. Photo by Chanda Hall. The book concludes with a consideration of how northern Black debates over school integration versus separation transformed the Black civil rights movement. Black northerners...
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An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
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Zoë Burkholder
Published online: 22 July 2021
Published in print: 02 December 2021
... public schools on an integrated basis. The closure was worth it, they reasoned, to advance school integration and the broader civil rights movement in the North. Following a two-d ay public hearing, the New Jersey State legislature voted to withhold funding for the school s operation, which effectively...
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From Neighborhood to City: The Formation of Jewish Metropolitan Urbanism
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lila corwin berman
Published: 06 May 2015
... decentralization hypocrisy open occupancy fair housing Judeo-Christian interfaith politics homeowners associations school integration suburbanization “For young moderns,” the advertisement announced, drawing readers’ eyes to a sketch of a chic woman and photograph of a tidy ranch home. She and the newly...