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In 1954, after the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Brown
v. Board of Education, schools across the South braced for the inevitable
… integration. Integration was met with resist across the nation.
In theory, Brown marked the end of de jure segregation. In reality,
de facto segregation took its place. Over 30 years after Brown and
the United States formally ended segregation in America’s educational institutions,
segregation has made a comeback (if it was ever gone) without any fanfare,
without so much as peep. The silence from across the nation has been
deafening. This is especially surprising since a large number of
America’s children are going to schools under conditions similar to or
worse than the pre-Brown era. Crumbling, dilapidated schools, outdated
books, poorly trained and overworked teachers, overcrowded classrooms and
special education programs that are overflowing with poor Black and Latino
children are now standard fare in America’s schools.
It is our hope that the legal cases, law review and newspaper articles and web site links we have gathered may assist you in your analysis and allow you to develop your own informed opinion. This section of the race-conscious remedies resource site provides readers with many resources that will put education and desegregation in a clearer perspective. This site not only provides readers with the historical context of the education struggle for minorities, but also offers resources to alternative remedial measures to protect minorities in this day of civil rights retrenchment. This site promises to be informative and enlightening on education jurisprudence and on the issues that face minorities in this field as we approach the new millennium. |
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| Historical Cases | Most Recent Cases |
| Plessy
v. Ferguson,
163 U.S. 537 (1896) |
U.S.
v. Fordice,
505 U.S. 717 (1992) |
| Sweatt
v. Painter,
339 U.S. 629 (1950) |
Missouri
v. Jenkins,
115 S. Ct. 2038 (1995) |
| Brown
v. Board of Education,
347 U.S. 483 (1954) (I), 349 U.S. 294 (1955) (II) |
Hopwood
v. State of Texas,
78 F. 3d. 932 (5th Cir. 1996) |
| Green
v. County School Board of New Kent County,
391 U.S. 430 (1968) |
Eisenberg
v. Mongomery Public Schools,
19 F. Supp. 2d. 449 (1998) |
| Swann
v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education,
402 U.S. 1 (1971) |
Wooden
v. Board Of Regents Of The University System Of Georgia,
32 F. Supp. 2d. 1370 (1999) |
| Podberesky
v. Kirwan,
38 F.3d 147 (4th Cir. 1994), cert. denied 514 U.S. 1128 (1995) |
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| Milliken
v. Bradley,
418 U.S. 717 (1974) (I), 433 U.S. 267 (1977) (II) |
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| Regents
of the University of California v. Bakke,
438 U.S. 265 (1978) |
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| End Of Race Decree Sparks Ideas To Aid Black Youths S.F. After-School Programs, Parent Involvement Touted by Venise Wagner, San Francisco Examiner, Monday, April 19, 1999 |
| REVIEW
& OUTLOOK (Editorial), California Dreams, The Wall Street Journal,
Tuesday, April 13, 1999 |
| Quality Education Seen as Vehicle to Integration by Judith Nygren & Michael O'Connor, Omaha World-Herald, Sunday, April 11, 1999 |
| Is U.S. Education Returning to Segregation? The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, April 12, 1997 |
| Racial Segregation: Institution of the Past, Problem of the Present, by Eran Mukamel, February 25, 1997 |
| SEGREGATION ANXIETY: A Court Rules That Hartford's Troubled Schools Cannot Look to the White Suburbs for Salvation, by Elizabeth Gleick, TIME Domestic, April 24, 1995 |
| A Case For School Segregation? Part 2 by Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
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| BUSING
DEBATE COMES FULL CIRCLE, CHARLOTTE SYSTEM FACES A FEDERAL TRIAL
by David E. Rovella
The National Law Journal, Volume 21, Number 35, Monday, April 26, 1999 |
| THE
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF RACE-CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS PROGRAMS IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
112 Harv. L. Rev. 940, Harvard Law Review, February, 1999 |
| CIVIL
RIGHTS PERESTROIKA: INTERGROUP RELATIONS AFTER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION by
Linda Hamilton Krieger
86 Calif. L. Rev. 1251, California Law Review, December, 1998 |
| BLIND
LEADING THE "COLORBLIND:" THE EVISCERATION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND A
DREAM STILL DEFERRED by Amy
L. Knickmeier
17 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 305, Northern Illinois University Law Review, Spring, 1997 |
| "Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools," by Gary Orfield, Harvard University; Mark D. Bachmeier, David R. James and Tamela Eide, Indiana University, Harvard Project on School Desegregation |
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Enter Food For Thought Instruction Page with a Link to Discussion Forum |
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| Affirmative
Action Review Report to the President – Submitted
in 1995 by George Stephanopoulos, Senior Adviser to the President for Policy
and Strategy and Christopher Edley, Jr., Special Counsel to the President
This site is useful to see how affirmative action information is disseminated to those in power. The report contains a hyperlinked outline of the report, from affirmative action history, policy justifications, empirical evidence, and affirmative action history in the military. |
| American Association of University Professors – This site contains AAUP resolutions on affirmative action, several older affirmative action reports, and newer articles on topics such as diversity and the recent Piscataway case. |
| Black Issues In Higher Education is the Nation's only news magazine dedicated exclusively to minority issues in higher education. |
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