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Wisdom, Hindsight Render Brown’s Goals ‘Incomplete’

Wisdom, Hindsight Render Brown’s Goals ‘Incomplete’Those of us who remember what it was like before and after the Brown v. Board of Education decision know that we underwent a process of change. We also know that we were profoundly affected by that change, even though we may not have realized it at the time. Brown […]

May 19, 2004

TheView from Topeka

TheView from TopekaBy Kendra HamiltonIt’s a little-known fact, but, 50 years ago, the junior high and high schools of Topeka, Kan., were integrated — though in name only. Fear was the order of the day at the high school, where an African American assistant superintendent by the name of Harrison Caldwell roamed the halls as […]

May 19, 2004

The Scholar-Activists of Brown

The Scholar-Activists of BrownScholars reflect on the intellectual contributions to the historic desegregation case When asked by Thurgood Marshall during the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case to join a team of scholars to answer questions posed by the U.S. Supreme Court about the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, […]

May 19, 2004

Brown at 50: Keeping Promises

Brown at 50: Keeping PromisesCall me a curmudgeon, but I’m skeptical when everyone celebrates — especially if we applaud civil rights advances that have been hard-fought and may not yet be fully secured. As virtually without exception we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, I wonder […]

May 19, 2004

New Report Looks Closely at Resegregation of Schools

New Report Looks Closely at Resegregation of SchoolsCAMBRIDGE, Mass. In the past decade there has been a backward movement for desegregation in U.S. schools, especially for Latino and African American students, and particularly in the South, according to a new study on national resegregation trends in American public schools. The report, released by the Civil […]

February 11, 2004

Race, Not Income, Produces Segregation in Metro Boston

Race, Not Income, Produces Segregation in Metro BostonCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Metropolitan Boston’s poor minority residents are over twice as likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than are poor Whites, and three times more likely to live in severely distressed neighborhoods, characterized by high shares of single-parent households, school dropouts, poverty and jobless males detached from […]

January 28, 2004

When Academia Meets Activism

When Academia Meets ActivismHarvard’s Color Lines conference draws nearly 1,000 participants to share new insights, data on the nation’s agenda on raceBy Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Labor Day weekend is not the time of year one would expect hundreds of professors, graduate students and other education professionals to be encamped under a white tent at the Harvard […]

September 24, 2003

Study: Nation’s Charter Schools Are Places of Racial Isolation

Study: Nation’s Charter Schools Are Places of Racial IsolationCAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) released a new study earlier this month on segregation patterns in the nation’s charter schools. “Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education,” written by Erica Frankenberg and Chungmei Lee, is the third in a […]

July 30, 2003

University of Alabama Honors Civil Rights Pioneers

University of Alabama Honors Civil Rights Pioneers TUSCALOOSA, Ala Forty years after Vivian Malone Jones walked past Gov. George Wallace and into history as one of the first Blacks to attend the University of Alabama, she said she has forgiven Wallace for trying to stop her, but can never forget. The civil rights pioneer spoke […]

July 2, 2003

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action

Education Secretary Criticizes Affirmative Action By Charles DervaricsRace-conscious college admissions hurt low-income minority students by pitting them against more affluent African American and Latino youth who could afford college anyway, U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige says. In his latest effort to push race-neutral college admissions, Paige told an Education Department conference audience that race-conscious admissions […]

May 21, 2003

Alcorn Names Auditorium After Alumnus and Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers

Alcorn Names Auditorium After Alumnus and Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers LORMAN, Miss. Alcorn State University dedicated an auditorium in a campus library to slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers last month. Evers’ widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, spoke to a crowd of several hundred people at a ceremony to unveil the newly named auditorium in the […]

April 9, 2003

Missouri Journalism School to Admit Freshmen for the First Time

Alcorn Names Auditorium After Alumnus and Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers LORMAN, Miss. Alcorn State University dedicated an auditorium in a campus library to slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers last month. Evers’ widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, spoke to a crowd of several hundred people at a ceremony to unveil the newly named auditorium in the […]

April 9, 2003

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