Rethinking Desegregation

• In Event: Roundtable Session 84

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Using historical methods, this panel explores the ways that local and federal policy makers, public school teachers, and private independent school leaders contended with the challenges of school desegregation between the 1960s and the 1980s. In doing so, this panel seeks to bring into conversation areas of research that are often artificially kept separate by divisions between studies of public and private schools, the north and the south, and federal versus state and local policies. By using the history presented in these papers to better understand the struggles, policy decisions, and demographic shifts that brought us to our contemporary moment, we can more adequately address the challenges in public education today.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Cosponsor

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• V. P. Franklin, University of California - Riverside

Papers

• Impact of Shifting Federal School Policy on Chicago - Dionne Danns, Indiana University

• Black Teachers, Public Service Employment, and Urban Middle-Class Politics - Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Governors State University

• Multiple Agendas, Multiple Interests: Race and Independent Schools in the 1960s and 1970s - Michelle A. Purdy, Washington University in St. Louis