Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond: The History & Implications of School Desegregation in the Urban North
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 260
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 260
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The social forces of race, economics, and political power within cities coalesce to define and circumscribe the lives of America’s urban inhabitants in profound ways. Education was seen as a primary means of economic and social upward mobility for those migrating to America’s urban centers during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Unfortunately, segments of the nation’s diverse urban populations were not afforded equal access to this valuable resource - race was a salient determinant of that.
Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond: The History of Implications of School Desegregation in the Urban North uses Cleveland as a point of reference to analyze the racial, social, economic, and political factors that shaped the educational experiences of America’s diverse racial/ethnic groups in the urban North.
Ronnie Dunn, James Hardiman, Donna Whyte, Mittie Davis Jones, and Adriennie Hatten’s Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond:
- examines the dominate philosophical doctrine of white supremacy and black inferiority and the attendant schools of thought on the intellectual ability of blacks.
- focuses on the industrialization of America’s urban centers as European immigrants and African American migrants poured into cities in the North and Midwest in search of a better life and the American dream.
- provides a historical overview of seminal court cases throughout the nation, which culminated in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education and subsequent school desegregation cases.
- examines the legal arguments and evidence presented in the Cleveland School desegregation case, Reed v. Rhodes (1973), and the Court’s ruling in the case.
- Looks at desegregation and busing and the associated white and black middleclass flight from the city’s public schools. It also examines academic performance data by race, as well as the effects of busing from the perspective of former students as reflected in personal interviews.
- examines the current state of public education in America and the ongoing challenges to educational equality in the twenty-first century.
Table of Cases
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Ronnie A. Dunn)
Author Biographies
Chapter 1 The Education of Blacks from the Antebellum to the Jim Crow Era
Ronnie A. Dunn
Chapter 2 Industrialization, Immigration, and The Great Black Migration
Ronnie A. Dunn
Chapter 3 The Struggle for Desegregation in Cleveland Public Schools: A Case Study
Donna M. Whyte
Chapter 4 School Desegregation
James Hardiman
Chapter 5 The Evolution of Segregation in the Cleveland Public School
James Hardiman
Chapter 6 The Court-Ordered Remedy and Desegregation of the Cleveland Schools
James Hardiman
Chapter 7 The End of Court-Ordered Desegregation in the Cleveland Schools
James Hardiman
Chapter 8 The E_ ects of Desegregation, Busing, and White and Black Flight
Ronnie A. Dunn
Chapter 9 Educational Reforms Post-School Desegregation Efforts
Mittie Davis Jones
Chapter 10 Epilogue—The State of Public Education in America
Adriennie Y. Hatten, Mittie Davis Jones, & Ronnie A. Dunn
Index
Ronnie A. Dunn, Ph.D., is an associate professor of urban studies at the Maxine Goodman-Levin College of Urban A airs at Cleveland State University. He is an urban sociologist whose teaching and research interests include institutional and structural racism, issues related to minorities and the urban poor, and policing and criminal justice.
Donna McIntyre Whyte, Ph.D., devoted most of her thirty-five year higher education administration career at Cleveland State University in diversity and multicultural affairs. She holds a doctorate in social policy history from Case Western Reserve University, and currently teaches courses in African-American history, urban studies and comparative religion at CSU.
James Hardiman, J.D., is a civil rights attorney with more than 40 years of experience. He was the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the Cleveland School Desegregation case and helped desegregate other school districts throughout Ohio and the nation, including the San Francisco School District. He has served as the legal director of the ACLU of Ohio and the Cleveland NAACP.
Mittie Davis Jones, Ph.D., is a recently retired associate professor and chair of urban studies at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. She is a political scientist, urban planner, and practitioner whose teaching and research interests include contemporary urban issues, public policy, housing policy, politics in the black community, and race relations.
Adriennie Y. Hatten, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of urban studies at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University and a nonprofit management consultant. She has extensive experience as a practitioner in urban education, nonprofit management, and government.