When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville’s local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools. This debate came at a time when scholars, pundits, and much of the public had declared school integration a failed experiment rightfully abandoned. Using oral history narratives, newspaper accounts, and other documents, Tracy E. K’Meyer exposes the disappointments of desegregation, draws attention to those who struggled for over five decades to bring about equality and diversity, and highlights the many benefits of school integration.
K’Meyer chronicles the local response to
Brown v. Board of Education in 1956 and describes the start of countywide busing in 1975 as well as the crisis sparked by violent opposition to it. She reveals the forgotten story of the defense of integration and busing reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the response to the 2007 Supreme Court decision known as
Meredith. This long and multifaceted struggle for school desegregation, K’Meyer shows, informs the ongoing movement for social justice in Louisville and beyond.
K’Meyer chronicles the local response to
Brown v. Board of Education in 1956 and describes the start of countywide busing in 1975 as well as the crisis sparked by violent opposition to it. She reveals the forgotten story of the defense of integration and busing reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the response to the 2007 Supreme Court decision known as
Meredith. This long and multifaceted struggle for school desegregation, K’Meyer shows, informs the ongoing movement for social justice in Louisville and beyond.
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Tracy E. K’Meyer is professor of history and codirector of the Oral History Center at the University of Louisville.购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 240 ● ISBN 9781469607092 ● 文件大小 48.5 MB ● 出版者 The University of North Carolina Press ● 市 Chapel Hill ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2013 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6469491 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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