Educational Pluralities as Remedy: Desegregation, Sovereignty, and Education Rights in Postwar Minneapolis

• In Event: Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Education: Empowering Native Voices

Abstract

This paper examines the coinciding struggles for education rights in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the 1970’s. It analyzes the judicial oversight of school desegregation between 1972 and 1982 in the city arguing that the imperatives framed by Brown v Board of Education (1954) could not sufficiently redress educational inequalities in the city when considering the experience of Native families and students. Specifically the American Indian Movement and members of the Indigenous community worked to remove themselves from desegregation exposing the limits of a Black and white binary in education law and policy.

Author

• Christopher J. Getowicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign