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 landmark decision in Milliken v. Bradley (1974). While the
literature on Brown is voluminous, Joyce Baugh's measured and
insightful study offers the only available book-length analysis of
Milliken, the first major desegregation case to originate outside
the South.
As Baugh chronicles, when the city of Detroit sought to address
school segregation by busing white students to black schools, a
Michigan statute signed by Gov. William Milliken overruled the
plan. In response, the NAACP sued the state on behalf of Ronald
Bradley and other affected parents. The federal district court
sided with the plaintiffs and ordered the city and state to devise
a "metropolitan" plan that crossed city lines into the suburbs and
encompassed a total of fifty-four school districts. The state,
however, appealed that decision all the way to the Supreme
Court.
In its controversial 5-4 decision, the Court's new conservative
majority 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 was "wholly impermissible"
and not justified by Brown--which the Court said could only address
de jure, not de facto segregation. While the Court's majority
expressed concern that the district court's remedy threatened the
sanctity of local control over schools, the minority contended that
the decision would allow residential segregation to be used as a
valid excuse for school segregation.
To reconstruct the proceedings and give all claims a fair
hearing, Baugh interviewed lawyers representing both sides in the
case, as well as the federal district judge who eventually closed
the litigation; plumbed the papers of Justices Blackmun, Brennan,
Douglas, and Marshall; talked with the main reporter who covered
the case; and researched the NAACP files on Milliken. What emerges
is a detailed account of how and why Milliken came about, as well
as its impact on the Court's school-desegregation jurisprudence and
on public education in American cities.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2011 |
| First published: |
February 2011 |
| Authors: |
Joyce Baugh
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| Dimensions: |
149 x 269 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7006-1766-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Law >
General
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| LSN: |
0-7006-1766-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780700617661 |
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