Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
by Derrick A. Bell
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages230 pages
ISBN
9780195182477
Published
2004
Description
When the landmark supreme court case of brown vs. Board of education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision, which declared public school segregation unconstitutional, would becom...When the landmark supreme court case of brown vs. Board of education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision, which declared public school segregation unconstitutional, would become the holy grail of racial justice. Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance and the racially separate and educationally ineffective state of public schooling for most black children, brown is still viewed by many as the perfect precedent.
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