| Series |
Landmark law cases & American society
Landmark law cases & American society. ^A388383
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010038986 |
| ISBN | 9780700617661 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0700617663 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780700617678 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0700617671 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
