From Brown to Meredith
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Author_Tracy E. K'Meyer
brown v. board of education
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civil rights in Kentucky
Civil rights in Louisville
civil rights in the border south
education policy
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Jefferson County
Kentucky Alliance
Kentucky Civil Liberties Union
KY
Louisville
Louisville NAACP
Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education
oral history
pro-busing activism
race and education
rise of the new right
school choice
school desegregation
school desegregation court cases
white anti-racism
white backlash
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- ISBN 9781469627250
- Weight: 356g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2016
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville's local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools. This debate came at a time when scholars, pundits, and much of the public had declared school integration a failed experiment rightfully abandoned. Using oral history narratives, newspaper accounts, and other documents, Tracy E. K'Meyer exposes the disappointments of desegregation, draws attention to those who struggled for over five decades to bring about equality and diversity, and highlights the many benefits of school integration.
K'Meyer chronicles the local response to Brown v. Board of Education in 1956 and describes the start of countywide busing in 1975 as well as the crisis sparked by violent opposition to it. She reveals the forgotten story of the defense of integration and busing reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the response to the 2007 Supreme Court decision known as Meredith. This long and multifaceted struggle for school desegregation, K'Meyer shows, informs the ongoing movement for social justice in Louisville and beyond.
K'Meyer chronicles the local response to Brown v. Board of Education in 1956 and describes the start of countywide busing in 1975 as well as the crisis sparked by violent opposition to it. She reveals the forgotten story of the defense of integration and busing reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the response to the 2007 Supreme Court decision known as Meredith. This long and multifaceted struggle for school desegregation, K'Meyer shows, informs the ongoing movement for social justice in Louisville and beyond.
Tracy E. K’Meyer is professor of history and codirector of the Oral History Center at the University of Louisville, USA.
