The Crucible of Desegregation by R. Shep Melnick PAPERBACK 9780226825526

The Crucible of Desegregation\nby R. Shep Melnick\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: R. Shep Melnick\nTitle: The Crucible of Desegregation\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Human rights, civil rights\nPublisher: University of Chicago Press\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9780226825526\nISBN-10: 0226825523\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nExamines the patchwork evolution of school desegregation policy.\nIn 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Educationestablishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional rightbut the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. The Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for evaluating competing interpretations. I.