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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Brown v. Board of Education"”.
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Evidence, Argument and Decision in Brown v. Board of Education
… in DSpace on 2015-05-12T17:05:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 5900587.PDF: 8590409 bytes, checksum: 669cca5b316af8324066e391d39347ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation: An Analysis of Selected Litigation
Brown is often regarded among the most monumental decisions ever rendered by the United States Supreme Court. Its legacy includes a body of case law affecting the shape and meaning of school desegregation over the past fifty years. However, school desegregation and the transition of Brown from …
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(re)Constructing a Landmark: A Rhetorical Analysis of Brown v Board of Education at Fifty
<p>This dissertation examines the landmark <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> case on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary with emphasis on its civic and social rhetorical functions. The analysis focuses on the two week period leading up to the fiftieth anniversary and the dedication of the …
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The Desegregation of Southampton County, Virginia Schools 1954-1970
The struggle to achieve integration of public schools in Southampton County, Virginia, has been an ongoing process that has occurred through the years since the Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 493, 74 S.Ct. 686, 691 (1954) and Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294, 75 S.Ciit. 753 …
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The international human right to education
Education as a human right is a subject of considerable debate all over the world. Indeed, we are living at a time when concern for educational rights has reached new heights. The importance of the right to education is recognized in several international instruments and in many constitutions but …
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A Place to Call Home: A Study of the Self-Segregated Community of Tatums, Oklahoma, 1894-1970
… South. This community provides a rich example of the apparent anomalies that the environment of self-segregation created. Despite the widespread violence of the Klan, the residents of the HBTs were not the targets of lynching or mob violence. During the years after World War II, Tatums …
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
Legal developments of the 1950s and 1960s such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases …
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The case for education as a fundamental right of citizenship in the United States
Since 1896, the issue of “separate but equal” has been an ever present notion in American society. From water fountains to lunch counters, the use of public facilities and the receipt of public services have often been impacted by the ethno-racial group to which one belongs. One of the greatest …
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Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
… high school in Kansas City, serves as an example of how radically education in Kansas City, Missouri, has changed over the course of the last 150 years. Beginning as part of Kansas City, Missouri’s, segregated public school system, Central was the city’s first all-white high school and remained as …
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Resegregation and Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
This study examined how the institution of the White private school system and the continued segregation of schools in Macon, GA has affected Macon's Black community. Archival data included newspaper accounts of Macon's educational climate from Brown v. Board of Education to present day. Interviews …
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Public School Desegregation in Virginia from 1954 to the Present
<p>This dissertation is an examination of the struggle to desegregate the public schools of Virginia from 1954 to 1972. The Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education attacked the social foundation of eleven southern states when it declared that racially segregated schools were "inherently …
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Without a sword or a shield: the fighting army behind Brown
The struggle of Black Americans to obtain access to economic and political opportunities available to Whites in the United States began with the arrival of the first enslaved persons in 1619 and continues today. Men and women of courage led the struggle, many of whom are well-known to history. …
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The Band At Little Rock Central High School Before, During, And After Integration In 1957-1958
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the history of the Little Rock Central High School band before, during, and after integration in 1957-1958. A review of related literature in the areas of civil rights, Brown v. Board of Education, integration of schools, integration of Little …
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Stitched from the Soul: An Auto/biographical Inquiry Into one Black Woman Administrator's Voice and Vision
… a Black woman administrator. I explore the lives of four generations of Black women in my family. Each of these women -- Hattie C. Wilcher (my great grandmother), Connie W. Duggan (my mother), Danielle R. Lowe (my daughter), and I -- have studied and/or taught in public schools in the U. S. south. …
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Separate but equal? A look at Michigan public school districts
<p>In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that schools that are separate are inherently unequal and that the desegregation of schools should take effect with “all deliberate speed.” Decades later, there are still schools whose student bodies are comprised of over 90% …
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Everything in My Power: Harry S. Truman and the Fight Against Racial Discrimination
Any attempt to tell the story of federal involvement in the dismantling of America's formalized systems of racial discrimination that positions the judiciary as the first branch of government to engage in this effort, identifies the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision as the beginning of the …
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A history of integration of the Waco public schools : 1954 to the present.
… public schools were segregated racially in most of the nation for more than a century after the first public school system was established in 1837 in Massachusetts. Desegregation and integration of the public schools nationwide began in 1954 when the United States Supreme Court made its historic …
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The First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to access equal information in America's public schools
… resulting from the inequitable distribution of resources caused by property tax based systems of funding public education. The Supreme Court declared in Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), that every student is entitled to equal access …
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Black education in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1939-1966
Black education was unique in Montgomery County, Virginia, during Jim Crow segregation because African American students were able to attend Christiansburg Institute (C.I.), a black secondary school with an excellent reputation. C.I. initially emphasized vocational education, but in the late 1940s …
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