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George, Janel; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
The long-standing effort to desegregate schools in the United States has been fostered, in part, by the development of magnet schools, which were launched in the 1960s to offer appealing choices of educational programs that could attract an integrated population of families. Magnet schools are public elementary or secondary schools that seek to…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Equal Education, School Desegregation, Elementary Secondary Education
Wraga, William G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka," which struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine of the 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision. The Court claimed, "To separate them [African American children] from others of similar age…
Descriptors: African American Children, Public Education, Democracy, School Desegregation
Teeter, Ruskin – 1987
Students, parents, and teachers of today should know full well that even a whole phalanx of educational reforms does not automatically prevail over the social bigotries that persist from the past. This paper provides an uncomfortable reminder of how the democratic purposes of U.S. education must be sustained not only by court decisions and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Discrimination
Handy, Harold G. – 2000
This lesson focuses on the post-Reconstruction South and the social practices based on race and skin color that hindered the South's growth as a region and relegated many people to the status of second-class citizens, in spite of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The lesson provides historical background and outlines a task for students to…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques