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Presents a selection of archival photographs that document events surrounding the integration of U.S. schools following the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and includes captions in which Toni Morrison imagines what the people in the pictures must have been thinking and feeling.
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"The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our nation's history. Yet looking back from the present day, we judge the integrationist dream post-Brown as an utter failure, in the belief that it harmed students and deepened racial divisions in our society. Though integration efforts continued into the...
7) Today the world is watching you ; the Little Rock Nine and the fight for school integration, 1957
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On September 4, 1957, nine African American teenagers made their way toward Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They didn't make it very far. Armed soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard blocked most of them at the edge of campus. The three students who did make it onto campus faced an angry mob of white citizens who spit at them and shouted ugly racial slurs.
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Presents an argument about the interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson shows the many ways that schools have been intertwined with these forces and have in fact--via land-use decisions, curricula, and other tools--helped sustain inequality. Taking Nashville as...
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Traces the history of race and segregation in Boston's public schools, discussing on the court-ordered busing that occurred in 1974 to transport African-American students to predominantly white schools, and detailing the events that took place at South Boston High School.
12) Root magic
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"It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven, and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always...
13) A child shall lead them: Two days in September 1957, the desegregation of Nashville Public Schools
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Meet three African-Americans who entered the first grade on Sept. 9, 1957 at previously all-white schools
14) Busing Brewster
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Bused across town to a school in a white neigborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing.
15) Through my eyes
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Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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A picture book relating the true story of Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost--three young Black girls who, on November 14, 1960, became the first Black students to integrate into a previously whites-only school after desegregation legislation. Celebrates the legacy of this moment and the lives the three girls went on to live.