Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation
Edición de la obra The Detroit school busing case
| Autor | Joyce A. Baugh |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University Press of Kansas |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | Lawrence |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 234 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780700617661, 9780700617678 |
| OCLC | 664260224 |
| LCCN | 2010038986 |
| Serie | Landmark law cases & American society |
| Número de Cutter |
B346d |
Overview: In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, racial equality in American public education appeared to have a bright future. But for many that brightness dimmed considerably following the Supreme Court's decision in Milliken v. Bradley (1974), which emerged from Detroit's efforts to use cross-district busing to desegregate its schools and was the first such case to originate outside the South. In its controversial 5-4 decision, the Supreme ruled that, since there was no evidence that the suburban school districts had deliberately engaged in a policy of segregation, the lower court's remedy of busing school children across municipal lines was "wholly impermissible" and not justified by Brown--which the Court said could only address de jure, not de facto segregation. In this first book-length account of the case, Joyce Baugh provides a richly detailed account of how and why Milliken came about and analyzes its subsequent impact on both civil rights jurisprudence and public education in American cities.