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The Detroit School Busing Case: Milliken v. Bradley and the Controversy over Desegregation (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
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Paperback. The only book-length analysis of Milliken v. Bradley, the first major desegregation case to originate outside the South. Reveals how the Supreme Court's decision undercut efforts to desegregate metropolitan public school systems, especially in the North, and how its negative effects on public education have endured. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: LNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, racial equality in American public education appeared to have a bright future. But, for many, that brightness dimmed considerably following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Milliken v. Bradley (1974). While the literature on Brown is voluminous, Joyce Baugh’s measured and insightful study offers the only available book-length analysis of Milliken, the first major desegregation case to originate outside the South. As Baugh chronicles, when the city of Detroit sought to address school segregation by busing white students to black schools, a Michigan statute signed by Gov. William Milliken overruled the ... Read more
In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, racial equality in American public education appeared to have a bright future. But, for many, that brightness dimmed considerably following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Milliken v. Bradley (1974). While the literature on Brown is voluminous, Joyce Baugh’s measured and insightful study offers the only available book-length analysis of Milliken, the first major desegregation case to originate outside the South. As Baugh chronicles, when the city of Detroit sought to address school segregation by busing white students to black schools, a Michigan statute signed by Gov. William Milliken overruled the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Landmark Law Cases and American Society
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700617678
SKU
V9780700617678
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