Brown in Baltimore : school desegregation and the limits of liberalism /

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In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baum, Howell S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
School integration > Maryland > Baltimore.
Segregation in education > Maryland > Baltimore.
Race relations in school management > Maryland > Baltimore.
School choice > Maryland > Baltimore.
Liberalism > Maryland > Baltimore.
Déségrégation en éducation > Maryland > Baltimore.
Ségrégation en éducation > Maryland > Baltimore.
Relations raciales dans l'administration scolaire > Maryland > Baltimore.
Écoles > Choix > Maryland > Baltimore.
Libéralisme > Maryland > Baltimore.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Liberalism
Race relations
Race relations in school management
School choice
School integration
Segregation in education
Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations.
Maryland > Baltimore
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An American border city
  • A long black campaign for equality
  • Opening the racial door slightly
  • Desegregation by free choice
  • Modest change
  • Parents' protest against continuing segregation
  • Growing integrationism and the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Federal intervention
  • Federal officials, the school board, and parents negotiate
  • The city's court victory.

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