The Original "Brown" Town after 50 Years: Desegregated, Not Integrated

Autor/in	Cook, Glenn
Titel	The Original "Brown" Town after 50 Years: Desegregated, Not Integrated
Quelle	In: Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 69 (2004) 9, S.7-15 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-127X
Schlagwörter	United States History; Court Litigation; Affirmative Action; African Americans; Equal Education; School Desegregation; Municipalities; Racial Integration; Boards of Education; Educational History; Civil Rights; Racial Discrimination; South Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Afroamerikaner; Integrative Schule; Magistrat; Rassenintegration; Ausschuss; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Racial bias; Rassismus
Abstract	The story of Summerton and its schools is a footnote to history. On the surface, daily life in this small South Carolina town today is a far cry from a half century ago. At the same time, little seems to have changed--and many residents seem to prefer it that way. And with good reason, for the townspeople, especially whites, still cast a wary eye at Summerton's place in history. It is home to Briggs v. Elliott, the first of five cases later consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education and arguably the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. To most, Brown is a lawsuit over an African-American girl from Kansas not allowed to attend an all-white school. But Briggs, not Brown, was the foundation for abolishing separate but equal schools. Thurgood Marshall, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lawyer who led the battle to end segregation in U.S. classrooms, argued Briggs, not Brown, before the Supreme Court. "It all started here," says Joe De Laine, Jr., namesake and son of the pastor whose efforts led to the litigation. "And yet people don't want to acknowledge it. They would be happy if it all just went away." But De Laine and the original plaintiffs' descendants, many of whom moved away and returned after retiring, are working to change that. Now in their sixties and seventies, they want Summerton to acknowledge and embrace its place in history. They want this hamlet--still dominated in population by blacks and in power by whites--to educate its children equally and equitably. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10