The Spirit of '42

[...]PDK's experience with the color barrier parallels - and anticipates that of the nation. While the restrictive white clause disappeared from PDK's constitution in 1942, the armed forces were not ordered to desegregate until 1948, and, of course, the Brown decision didn't come alon...

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Published in:Phi Delta Kappan 2006-02, Vol.87 (6), p.418-418
Main Author: Smith, Bruce M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Citizenship
Citizenship Education
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Education
Education reform
Educational Change
Graduate Study
Kozol, Jonathan
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Periodical indexing
Racial Integration
Teacher education
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Summary:[...]PDK's experience with the color barrier parallels - and anticipates that of the nation. While the restrictive white clause disappeared from PDK's constitution in 1942, the armed forces were not ordered to desegregate until 1948, and, of course, the Brown decision didn't come along until 1954. Brown was certainly a pivotal legal decision in the history of 20th-century education in the U.S., and I'm betting that most of us can quote some of its more famous lines, such as "In the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
ISSN:0031-7217
1940-6487
DOI:10.1177/003172170608700601