The Cold Hard Truth By J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Vol. 13, No. 3, 1991, pp. 32, 31 I have been looking quietly at the Selma school system and the Selma school board. Selma is where I live, but I expect it’s

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Selma: What Has Changed? By Christina Matthews Vol. 13, No. 4, 1991, pp. 12-15 More than two decades after the civil rights movement came to Selma. Ala, the public school system there remains segregated. Schools in Selma, like many schools

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Focus on School Desegregation: Is the Past Repeating? By Staff Vol. 13, No. 4, 1991, pp. 17-19 Introduction Perhaps the most important school desegregation case since Brown v. Board of Education was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court Oct 7,

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The Ignorance of the Learned. Reviewed by Charles J. Bussey Vol. 13, No. 4, 1991, pp. 25-26 Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi by David G. Sansing. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990, xii, 309

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Are We Ready for a Vision of Justice? Reviewed by Leslie Dunbar Vol. 14, No. 1, 1992, pp. 25-28 Savage Inequalities. Jonathan Kozol. (Crown Publishers, 1991. ix, 262 pp.). The Promised Land. Nicholas Lemann. (Knopf, 1991. 410 pp.). Explanations of

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Incidental Ambassadors Reviewed by Linda Blackford Vol. 14, No. 3, 1992, pp. 28-29 An Education in Georgia , by Calvin Trillin, Foreword by Charlayne Hunter Gault (University of Georgia Press, 1991, 180 pages) If prevailing wisdom is correct, the events

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Twenty Years in the Making and Still Unresolved: Ayers Desegregation Suit Has Far-Reaching Impact on Black Colleges By Faye McDonald Smith Vol. 16, No. 4, 1994, pp. 8-11, 14-16 In the heart of Dixie, publicly supported black colleges and universities

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Ayers v. Fordice: An Update By Faye McDonald Smith Vol. 17, No. 1, 1995 p. 19 In our last issue, (Winter ’94), we ran a detailed article about the twenty-year-old Ayers desegregation case of higher education in Mississippi. In March

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Get Back! The Resegregation of America’s Schools By Linda Blackford Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 9-11 The city of Charleston, West Virginia, took an unusual approach to school integration in the fall of 1956: It moved black children into

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Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools By Gary Orfield, Harvard University; Mark D. Bachmeier, David R. James and Tamela Eide, Indiana University Harvard Project on School Desegregation Vol. 19, No. 2, 1997 pp. 11-18 Introduction After the Supreme Court outlawed

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