Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Jonathan Kozol's The Shame of the Nation exposes the ways in which the school desegregation achieved by the civil rights movement has been dismantled since the late 1980's. Exploring Brown v. Board of Education and its impact, Kozol also examines the widespread successful efforts to dismantle that case's effects, the crippling results of school segregation and the sometimes harmful attempts to overcome segregation. Kozol also examines some ways in which desegregation can be achieved, chiefly through a civil rights movement that can also use state and federal legislatures and courts. Kozol's book reveals an alarming situation, though some of his conclusions seem extreme.

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Chapter 1 - Dishonoring the Dead (pp.13-38)

Chapter 1 discusses the Supreme Court 1954 decision, Brown v. The Board of Education.

Thurgood Marshall, who gave his opinion for that decision, said that separate-but-equal schools...
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