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ERIC Number: EJ742094
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-2680
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"Brown", Black, and Yellow: Desegregation in a Multi-Ethnic Context
Williamson, Joy Ann
History of Education Quarterly, v44 n1 p109-112 Spr 2004
The Brown decisions have become part of the collective American memory. Students know that the 1954 decision ended legalized segregation in elementary and secondary schools and rightly understand it as a benchmark in educational history. However, when pressed for information on the decisions, few have ever read the original court documents and even fewer realize there were two separate decisions, that four states and the District of Columbia were involved, and that the South fought aggressively for years to nullify their effect on school attendance. This article discusses the Brown decisions by focusing on the Education for Liberation class. The primary purpose of the class is to trace and understand the location of education in the struggle for equal rights and liberation. (Contains 7 resources.)
History of Education Society. 220 McKay Education Building, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 16057. Fax: 724-738-4548; e-mail: heq@sru.edu.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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