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Author Dougherty, Jack

Title More than one struggle : the evolution of Black school reform in Milwaukee / Jack Dougherty
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations
Contents Compromising to win Black teachers' jobs -- Redefining the local meaning of Brown v. Board -- Calming the "migrant crisis" through compensatory education -- Confronting established Blacks and whites on segregation -- Uniting the movements for integration and Black power -- Negotiating the politics of stability and school desegregation -- Transforming strategies for Black school reform
Summary Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining greater control over schools
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-247) and index
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Subject African Americans -- Education -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History
Discrimination in education -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History
Educational change -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- History
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
African Americans -- Education
Discrimination in education
Educational change
Race relations
SUBJECT Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Race relations
Subject Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003018808
ISBN 0807863467
9780807863466
0807828556
9780807828557
0807855243
9780807855249