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This is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states--Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin--dealt with the Court's mandate to desegregate "with all deliberate speed." The process followed many diverse paths.

Some of the common themes in these efforts were the importance of black activism, especially the crucial role played by the NAACP; entrenched white opposition to school integration, which wasn't just a southern state issue, as is shown in Delaware, Wisconsin, and Indiana; and the role of the federal government, a sometimes inconstant and sometimes reluctant source of support for implementing Brown. ... Read more

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Best Comparative Work on Brown!!!!!!!
If you are a graduate student or researcher interested in the various ways Brown manifested itself throughout the country, this is the book for you. Top scholars have each taken on various states from around the U.S., versus many other books that focus solely on the South. While many books focus primarily on "massive resistance" to Brown, this work highlights the many variations from school districts who tried and failed to create racial diversity to districts that did everything they could to find loopholes. This book is an easy read but packed with great stories, detailed citations, and the most current historiography. ... Read more

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Subtitle: To Be Preserved by Each Officer and Delivered to His SuccessorGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1910Original Publisher: C. W. Saunders, printerSubjects: Educational law and legislationSchool lawLaw / Educational Law ... Read more

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Title: Virginia School Laws Codified for the Use of School Officers by Order of the State Board of Education, to Be Preserved by Each Officer and Delivered to His SuccessorPublisher: Richmond, C. W. Saunders, printerPublication date: 1910Subjects: School law -- VirginiaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Constitutional Commentary, published by Constitutional Commentary, Inc. on June 22, 1998. The length of the article is 3800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Brown v. Board of Education actually provides very poor evidence of harm to African American children by school segregation, the case's expert evidence that segregation impedes these children's ability to learn by engendering insecurity is still criticized today. Loving v. Virginia, a 1967 Supreme Court case invalidating state antimiscegenation laws barring interracial marriages between African Americans and whites, held that such laws had not been validated by history.

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Title: If at first you don't succeed, ignore the question next time? Group harm in Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia.
Author: John Hart Ely
Publication: Constitutional Commentary (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
Publisher: Constitutional Commentary, Inc.
Volume: 15Issue: n2Page: 215-223

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more