Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation by Garland, Sarah

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807033333)

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Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation by Garland, Sarah

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

$20.00
Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation by Garland, Sarah

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality

In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation-- both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Of course, this wasn't the first federal lawsuit to challenge school desegregation. But it was the first--and only--one brought by African Americans. In Divided We Fail, journalist Sarah Garland deftly and sensitively tells the stories of the families and individuals who fought for and against desegregation. By reframing how we commonly understand race, education, and the history of desegregation, this timely and deeply relevant book will be an important contribution to the continued struggle toward true racial equality.


Author: Sarah Garland
ISBN-10: 0807033332
ISBN-13: 9780807033333
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2014
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Sarah Garland
By Sarah Garland
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Sarah Garland is a staff writer at the Hechinger Report. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, American Prospect, New York Sun, Newsweek, Washington Monthly, Newsday, New York, and Marie Claire, among other publications. She was a 2009 recipient of the Spencer Fellowship in Education Reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Garland now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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