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"Free at Last": Kennedy, King, and the Meaning of Liberty in the Disability Rights Movement
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Turnbull, H. Rutherford, III – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2012
There is a direct link connecting President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., to the causes of liberty, consent, choice, the least restrictive environment, and genuine community presence for people with intellectual and related developmental disabilities. This article connects the meaning of liberty in those civil rights movements to the…
Descriptors: Freedom, Civil Rights, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities
The Educational Panacea of the Black Man: Black American Faith in American Education, 1954-1983.
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White, Clarence, Jr. – Negro Educational Review, 1983
Reviews efforts by Black Americans to gain social justice and equality through education. Traces the civil rights movement from the 1954 Supreme Court Brown decision and the Montgomery (Alabama) bus strike and examines the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on education as an instrument of social justice. (AOS)
Descriptors: Activism, Blacks, Civil Rights, Educational Change
Preparation, Pedagogy, Policy, and Power: "Brown," the "King" Case, and the Struggle for Equal Language Rights
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Ball, Arnetha F.; Alim, H. Samy – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
For scholars of literacy and educational linguistics, the years 2004 and beyond have given them cause to not only revisit racial issues 50 years after "Brown v. Board of Education," but also to revisit 25 years of language and racial politics since "the Martin Luther King Black English case." This chapter discusses what needs…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Black Dialects, Linguistics, Court Litigation