Divided We Fail The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

Name: Divided We Fail The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation
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ISBN: 9780807033333

ISBN-10: 0807033332

ISBN-13: 9780807033333

Edition: 2015

Authors: Sarah Garland

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Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Of course, this wasn’t the first federal lawsuit to challenge school desegregation. But it was the first—and only—one brought by African Americans. In Divided We Fail, journalist Sarah Garland deftly and sensitively tells the stories of…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 11/25/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English