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Book

The Detroit school busing case : Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation

Call Numbers

  • 344.0798 B346 (CEN)
  • H 344.0798 B346 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2011.

Physical Description

xiii, 234 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

  • From Plessy to Brown : the rise and demise of "separate but equal"
  • Metropolitan Detroit : from boomtown to ticking time bomb
  • Separate but unequal, northern style
  • Act 48 : decentralization trumps desegregation
  • Cross-district integration : remedying segregation or penalizing the suburbs?
  • Getting off the bus : Milliken in the Supreme Court
  • Milliken II and the retreat from school desegregation.

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