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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"School Desegregation"”.
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School Desegregation in Roanoke, Virginia: The Black Student Perspective
… were the first to desegregate Roanoke, Virginia, schools during the 1960-1961 school year. In September of 1960, nine Black students were chosen to desegregate formerly all-White schools in Roanoke. The stories of these students have not been comprehensively researched or formally recorded. Their …
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Public School Desegregation in Virginia from 1954 to the Present
… 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 unequal." Brown I,, in fact, was one …
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A study of attitudes of high school learners towards school desegregation
… was to determine the general attitude of high school learners towards school desegregation, the second aim focused on the age of the learner and whether or not this played a role in the learners' attitudes towards the process of desegregation and lastly the* third aim examined the extent to …
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White Power and Profit in New England School Desegregation, 1964–1972
… the court-ordered and government-incentivized desegregation that followed, most schools in New England continued to exclude nonwhite children systematically. I argue that this began to change when desegregation became profitable for powerful white New Englanders. Starting with the nation’s most …
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The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts
… York City has one of the most segregated public school systems in the United States. The Department of Education is attempting to address segregation through district level diversity planning processes that potentially change school admissions policies. Using mixed methods, this thesis explores …
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Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation: An Analysis of Selected Litigation
… 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 courtroom jurisprudence to a manifestation of equal educational opportunities for African American and other minority students has not …
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More than race: Differentiating Black students’ everyday experiences in Texas school desegregation, 1968-1978
In newly desegregated schools in Waco, Texas, how did Black students’ social identities, namely race, gender, and socioeconomic status, differentiate their everyday experiences? This local social history examines this central question, using intersectionality as the theoretical lens and oral …
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With All Deliberate Speed : The Pearsall Plan and School Desegregation in North Carolina, 1954-1966.
… legally ended the operation of segregated schools in the South. In North Carolina, a series of legal challenges began under the Pupil Assignment Act and, later, the Pearsall Plan to delay the desegregation of the state's school systems. In an effort to avoid massive public demonstrations, …
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The Utilization of The Desegregation Assistance Center by Illinois School Districts With Problems Occasioned by School Desegregation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009064.pdf: 3137635 bytes, checksum: d5eed0befe4c82f534ecdf8b788b1fbc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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A study of the Newport News pupil desegregation process
… of Newport News, Virginia, handed down a plan of school desegregation for the city public school system which represented a significant departure from the city's then operating plan. The influences shaping the August 12, 1971 plan over a seventeen-year span of time, beginning with the May 17, …
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Three essays on the impact of student assignment policies
… papers investigate the impacts of the removal of school desegregation plans on school racial segregation and on ninth grade repetition rates in the U.S. The third paper examines the impact of the school choice policy in Seoul, Korea on school segregation by academic performance levels.</p> <p>Over …
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An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Desegregation Consent Decree (1980 - 2006): Establishing Its Relationship with the Brown v. Board Case of 1954 and the Implications of Its Implementation on Educational Leadership
… an historical analysis of the Chicago Public School Desegregation Consent Decree, while illustrating its relationship with the Brown v. Board of 1954. It provides and analysis of the mission and objectives of all three versions of the Consent Decree which include: The Original Consent Decree …
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The Battle Over A Black YMCA and Its Inner-City Community: The Fall Creek Parkway YMCA As A Lens On Indianapolis’ Urban Revitalization and School Desegregation, 1959-2003
… projects in Indianapolis’ downtown area, and school desegregation, which was the focus of a federal court case that affected Indianapolis Public Schools. Delineating the contested visions held by Fall Creek and Metropolitan YMCA administrators about how the Fall Creek YMCA should have …
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The first educational exodus : a narrative of 1965
Histories of Boston's school desegregation crisis have focused on the legal and political struggles that preceded the Garrity decision, which, in 1974, enforced citywide school integration. It is necessary to discern and evaluate the viewpoints of black and white parents in the greater Boston area …
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Integration and learners' feelings of belonging in a desegregated former House of Delegates school
… South African children would have access to a school of their choice and that no child would be turned away from school on grounds of race, ethnicity, class and/ or religion. School desegregation has been one of the means of attaining social cohesion and ensuring that all learners have access …
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More than just a game: the impact of sports on racial segregation in one southern town
… Civil Rights Movement, particularly addressing school desegregation during 1965–1971 in Valdosta, Georgia, based on interviews with nine Black football athletes who played for Valdosta High School during that period. The Valdosta High School football team had a tradition of excellence that was …
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A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Testimonies of Black Women's Experience of Desegregation in the South
<p>This is an inquiry into school desegregation, Black Women, and spirituality with the focus on three young Black Women who desegregated a small rural high school in the South. Theoretically drawing upon the works of Alice Walker (1983, 1997, 2006), Audre Lorde (2007), Emilie Townes (1995, 1996, …
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A spatial history of protest in Boston
… it identifies the significance of Boston Public School desegregation as a catalyst for neighborhood protests during the 1970s, particularly in South Boston. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the mechanisms that shape the spatial patterns of urban protest and engages in a critical …
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The Southern Baptist Convention and civil rights, 1954-1995
… Between World War II and the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision, Southern Baptists from all theological camps advocated racial equality. They did not consider, however, that a belief in equality might conflict with segregation. The changing social climate between 1955 and 1970 drove …
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