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The blood of Emmett Till [sound recording] / by Tyson, Timothy B.,author.(CARDINAL)212981; Price, Rhett S.,narrator.;
Read by Rhett S. Price.In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a visiting fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. The national coalition organized to protest the Till lynching became the foundation of the modern civil rights movement. But what actually happened to Emmett Till? Not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Tyson draws on a wealth of new evidence--including the only interview ever given by Carolyn Bryant, the white woman in whose name Till was killed--to present a half-detective story, half political history -- Adapted from publisher description.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.; African Americans; Hate crimes; Lynching; Racism; Trials (Murder);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Overturning Brown : the segregationist legacy of the modern school choice movement / by Suitts, Steve,author.(CARDINAL)820231;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A new era for 'school choice' and vouchers -- Civil rights rhetoric echoes in 'school choice' and vouchers -- Forgotten segregationists -- School choice and vouchers become segregationist tools -- Preserving virtual school segregation through vouchers -- The limits of lawsuits : toppling voucher programs but not segregated schools -- Milton Friedman and 'government schools' -- Challenging tax benefits of segregated private schools -- The 'post-racialist' standards movement -- For God and private schools -- No to 'racial-mixing,'yYes to vouchers -- New token students of choice -- Lingering facets of Jim Crow segregation -- Desegregation's future."School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines theparallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement. He exposes the dangers lying behind the smoke and mirrors of the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic andeducational disparities have expanded rather than contracted in the years following Brown, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. Suitts deftly reveals the risk that America's underprivileged youth face as school voucher programs funnel public education funds into charter schools and predominantly white and wealthy private schools"--
Subjects: Segregation in education; School choice; Educational vouchers; Educational equalization;
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Understanding school desegregation / by United States Commission on Civil Rights.(CARDINAL)137811;
The great progress of recent years towards school integration has not been uniform: pockets of resistance remain and the issues involved in school desegregation continue to arouse public controversy and confusion. Sixteen years after the Supreme Court (in Brown vs Topeka) had ruled that school segregation compelled or sanctioned by law unconstitutional, there is still no widespread understanding of the nature and scope of the issues. The Civil Rights Commission believes that public understanding of the issues involved in school desegregation is essential if they are to be resolved satisfactorily. Many of these issues are legal in nature and require careful analysis of relevant court decisions. Other issues involve practical questions concerning the quality of education afforded to the Nation's children. Still others relate to fundamental human and moral questions of national conscience. The Commission speaks out in the hope that it can shed light on the issues and, by so doing, contribute to their successful resolution. The issue of school desegregation, like other issues of national concern, has roots deep in history; to understand fully the present situation and to form a sound basis for determining courses of action for the future, what that history has been must first be understood.
Subjects: Segregation in education;
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A little child shall lead them : a documentary account of the struggle for school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia / by Daugherity, Brian J.,1972-editor.(CARDINAL)858850; Grogan, Brian,editor.(CARDINAL)859224;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Prologue : "The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia" -- "A little child shall lead them" -- "Separate but equal has no place" -- "Massive resistance" -- "With profound regret" -- "The closed schools" -- "The free schools" -- "Too much deliberation and not enough speed" -- Epilogue : "A pretty good place to live.""... A collection of primary documents addressing the civil rights-era struggle for public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia"--Editors' notes.In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal campaign for school desegregation. That step ultimately brought this rural, agricultural county to the Supreme Court of the United States as one of five consolidated cases in the historic 1954 ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Unique among those cases, Prince Edward County took the extreme stance of closing its public school system entirely rather than comply with the desegregation ruling of the Court. The schools were closed for five years, from 1959 to 1964, until the Supreme Court ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County ordered the restoration of public education in the county.This historical anthology brings together court cases, government documents, personal and scholarly writings, speeches, and journalism to represent the diverse voices and viewpoints of the battle in Prince Edward County for--and against--educational equality. Providing historical context and contemporary analysis, this book offers a new perspective of a largely overlooked episode and seeks to help place the struggle for public education in Prince Edward County into its proper place in the civil rights era. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: School integration; Segregation in education;
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Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia / by Titus, Jill Ogline.(CARDINAL)309958;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index."When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed a building here or there to block a specific desegregation order, only in Prince Edward did local authorities abandon public education entirely--and with every intention of permanence. When the public schools finally reopened after five years of struggle--under direct order of the Supreme Court--county authorities employed every weapon in their arsenal to ensure that the newly reopened system remained segregated, impoverished, and academically substandard. Intertwining educational and children's history with the history of the black freedom struggle, Titus draws on little-known archival sources and new interviews to reveal the ways that ordinary people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the United States"--
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961; School integration; Educational equalization; Public schools; African American students; Civil rights movements;
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Integration now : Alexander v. Holmes and the end of Jim Crow education / by Hustwit, William P.,author.(CARDINAL)402077;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-256) and index.Race and education before Alexander -- The Holmes County movement -- The grassroots and the lawyers -- Pleading for the Fifth -- All the President's mendacity -- Alexander in the high court -- An imperfect revolution : enforcing Alexander."Recovering the history of a landmark Supreme Court case that has received surprisingly little attention from scholars, William P. Hustwit assesses the significant role that Alexander v. Holmes (1969) played in integrating the South's public schools and argues that the Alexander decision was ultimately more decisive than Brown v. Board in terminating public school segregation. Although the Brown ruling has rightly received the lion's share of attention, its ambiguous implementation language -- 'all deliberate speed' -- led to more than a decade of delays and resistance by whites. Alexander v. Holmes required 'integration now,' and less than a year later, thousands of children were attending integrated schools"--
Subjects: Alexander, Beatrice; Holmes County (Miss.). Board of Education; School integration; School integration; African Americans;
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Eisenhower vs. Warren : the battle for civil rights and liberties / by Simon, James F.,author.(CARDINAL)152936;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist who wanted to coax white Americans in the South into eventually accepting integration, while Warren, author of the Supreme Court's historic unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, demanded immediate action to dismantle the segregation of the public school system. In Eisenhower vs. Warren, two-time New York Times Notable Book author James F. Simon examines the years of strife between them that led Eisenhower to say that his biggest mistake as president was appointing that "dumb son of a bitch Earl Warren." This momentous, poisonous relationship is presented here at last in one volume. Compellingly written, Eisenhower vs. Warren brings to vivid life the clash that continues to reverberate in political and constitutional debates today"--
Subjects: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.; School integration; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
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Thurgood Marshall : the making of America / by Kanefield, Teri,1960-author.(CARDINAL)704827;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-243) and index.Prologue: a public enemy -- Way up South -- College days -- Top man in the class -- The equalization strategy -- A social engineer -- Speaking out -- Mr. Civil Rights -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Massive resistance -- Judge Marshall -- A more perfect unionThurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was a US Supreme Court Justice and important civil rights activist. Born in Baltimore, Marshall faced racial segregation at school, but he worked his way up, earned his law degree, and moved to New York to serve the NAACP and argue cases as an attorney. In 1967 he became the first African American man to serve on the Supreme Court, where he argued more cases than anyone else in history.
Subjects: Biographies.; Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993; United States. Supreme Court; Judges; African American judges;
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Looking over Black shoulders / by Perkins, Adam L.,author.;
As soon as slavery ended with the Civil War in 1865 and with the passing of the 13th Amendment, southern Blacks enacted what became known as the "White codes." These codes became the means by which Blacks could maintain control of every aspect of the newly freedman's life and maintain Black supremacy. Thus, while Whites were considered free they were not entitled to the benefits of freedom.Not the end of slavery -- The birth of the Black Riders Association -- The beginning of Jim Crow -- Voting restrictions: the enactment of the grandfather clause -- Miscegenation: under penalty of law -- Jim Crow: in public facilities. Barber shops -- Some Jim Crow barber shop laws by state -- Halls of injustice -- Ten miles between life and death: some Jim Crow health care laws by state -- Not for sale: some Jim Crow housing statutes by state -- Just across the tracks: Some Jim Crow public facility laws by state -- Restricted access: Some Jim Crow swimming pool statutes by state -- Beaches and parks: off limits -- Some Jim Crow public park and beaches statutes by state -- Till race do us part: Some Jim Crow cemetary state statutes -- Chain the doors -- The doll test -- The W.I.T.C.H. test -- U.S. Supreme Court rules on school segregation -- A time for change -- The author of diversity.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Racism; Racism.;
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Integration vs. segregation. by Humphrey, Hubert H.(Hubert Horatio),1911-1978.(CARDINAL)139550;
Bibliography: pages 305-308.Legal history since the 14th Amendment of the racial crisis in U.S. schools as viewed by 17 commentators, with texts of the decisions of the Supreme Court.
Subjects: Segregation in education.;
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