The Detroit school busing case : Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation / Joyce A. Baugh.
Baugh, Joyce A.
2011
KF228.M55 B38 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The Detroit school busing case : Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation / Joyce A. Baugh.
Author Baugh, Joyce A.
ISBN 9780700617678 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700617671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780700617661 (alk. paper)
0700617663 (alk. paper)
Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2011.
Language English
Description xiii, 234 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number KF228.M55 B38 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 344.73/07980977434
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Landmark law cases & American society.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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