Choosing equality : essays and narratives on the desegregation experience
"Examines the desegregation experience, with a focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, through Parents Involved v. Seattle School District in 2007. Assesses desegregation in Delaware, one of the states involved in the original Brown litigation"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, ©2009
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2009
Trial and arbitral proceedings
xiii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780271034331, 9780271034348, 0271034335, 0271034343
268957411
ContentsForeword by the Hon. Joseph R. Biden Jr.AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Leland Ware Part I. The Context: Race and Segregation 1. Robert L. Hayman Jr.: A History of Race in Delaware: 1639–19502. Interview of the Honorable Collins Jacques Seitz Conducted by the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. and by David V. Stivison 3. Delaware Voices: Collins J. Seitz Jr. 4. Annette Woolard-Provine: Remembering Louis Redding 5. Juan Williams: Remembering Thurgood Marshall 6. Robert J. Cottrol: The Difference That Brown Made 7. Jack Greenberg: A Glass Half Full Part II. The Experience: Education and Desegregation 8. Leland Ware: Educational Equity and Brown v. Board of Education:Fifty Years of School Desegregation in Delaware 9. Orlando Camp and Ed Kee: Lost Opportunity: The Failure to Integrate Milford's Public Schools in 1954 10. Delaware Voices: Littleton Mitchell 11. An Interview with the Honorable Murray M. Schwartz12. Roger L. Goldman: The Resegregation Decisions and the New Federalism 13. Delaware Voices: Jae Street Part III. The Legacies: Desegregation and Resegregation 14. James T. Patterson: Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education 15. Robert J. Lipkin: Haunted by Brown 16. Paul Finkelman: Civil Rights in Historical Context: In Defense of Brown 17 Jack M. Balkin: Brown, Social Movements, and Social Change 18 Nancy Levit: Race and Sex Segregation in Schools Fifty Years after Brown 19 Patricia J. Williams: Pre-White and Post-Black: The Aesthetics of Oppression 20 Jeffrey A. Raffel: Charter Schools in the Context of Brown: Panaceaor Faustian Bargaining? 21 Michele Fuetsch and Leland Ware: Race, Class, and Resegregation:Delaware Schools Fifty Years after Brown 22 Robert L. Hayman Jr. and Leland Ware: The Geography of Discrimination:The Seattle and Louisville Cases and the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education Bibliographic Essay by David K. King Contributors Index