Product Description: ''I hope Dr. Horsford's book will spur much discussion about the greatest national security threat faced by our nation: millions of illiterate and poorly prepared children unprepared to meet the future demands in an increasingly competitive globalizing economy...read more

Product Description: The Supreme Court s Brown rulings in 1954 and 1955 gave rise to a program of massive resistance in the American South that included the resurrection of the doctrine of interposition. The first critical test of interposition occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas, beginning in September 1957 when Governor Faubus called out the National Guard to bar the Little Rock Nine from Central High School, thereby igniting one of the greatest constitutional crises in American history...read more

Looks at continuing repercussions of Brown v. Board of Education and, despite the original intentions, its frequently negative impact on the educational needs of African-American children.

Product Description: May 17, 2004 will mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. This case is considered to be the most important legal case affecting African Americans in the twentieth century and one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in U...read more

Discusses the reversal of desegration in public schools

Product Description: The relationship between race and education continues as a major issue in American Society. This book, which includes Alan Wieder's work over the last twenty years, addresses issues like racism, racial bigotry, and racial inequality in both school and society in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Details the struggles of the civil rights movement to achieve the desegregation of American schools and examines the impact of President Nixon on school desegregation

Wilkinson's incisive history of the Supreme Court's halting role in integrating education focuses on the two most controversial Supreme Court decisions of this generation and the country's reaction to them (view table of contents)

Wilkinson's incisive history of the Supreme Court's halting role in integrating education focuses on the two most controversial Supreme Court decisions of this generation and the country's reaction to them