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Remembering Brown at fifty the University of Illinois commemorates Brown v. Board of Education
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Details
- Creator
- edited by Orville Vernon Burton and David O'Brien
- Included Title
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (435 pages : illustrations (some color))
- ISBNs
- 0252053966, 9780252076657, 9780252034770, 9780252053962, 0252034775, 0252076656
- OCLC
- on1328221185, on1285757233
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The Briggs v. Elliott legacy : black culture, consciousness, and community before Brown, 1930-1954 / Darlene Clark Hine -- Getting around Brown : the social warrant of the new racism / George Lipsitz -- From Brown to Grutter : the diverse beneficiaries of Brown v. Board of Education -- Beyond school desegregation : the impact of Brown / Laughlin McDonald -- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" : the advertising council, the United Negro College Fund, and educational access for African Americans / Jason Chambers -- Success and failure : how systemic racism trumped the Brown v. Board of Education decision / Joe R. Feagin and Bernice McNair Barnett -- From racial liberalism to racial literacy : Brown v. Board of Education and the interest-divergence dilemma / Lani Guinier -- Briggs : South Carolina's bold step that led to Brown / Joseph A. De Laine Jr. -- About integration : in memory of the Reverend J. A. De Laine / Ophelia De Laine Gona -- My life and times with Thurgood Marshall / John Hope Franklin -- The intolerable burden / Constance Curry -- The freedom riders : two personal perspectives / James C. Onderdonk -- Looking back at the Freedom Riders / Ed Blankenheim -- The middle generation after Brown / Kal Alston -- Why colored faces in high places just won't do / Sekou Sundiata -- The chance project / John Jennings -- What was always there / Ralph Lemon
- Art and integration : an interview with Carrie Mae Weems / Carrie Mae Weems and David O'Brien -- Social studies : eight artists address Brown / David O'Brien -- A legacy of firsts : African Americans in architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Kathryn H. Anthony and Nicholas Watkins -- Reflections on the Brown commemoration from a Champaign native / Nathaniel C. Banks -- Reform in the black power era / Joy Ann Williamson Lott -- Lest we forget / Richard Herman -- Enforcing Brown in sundown towns / James W. Loewen -- Civil rights : now and then / Julian Bond -- Reflections on America's academic achievement gap : a fifty-year perspective / Freeman A. Hrabowshi III -- Just because of the color of his skin : the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till / Christopher Benson -- Thurgood Marshall's vision / Juan Williams and Christopher Teal
Subjects
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
- Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
- African Americans -- Civil rights.
- Civil rights -- United States.