Summary: In 1957, the eyes of America were on Little Rock, where the compulsory desegregation of Central High School was front-page news. But what about the broader picture? How successful had integration efforts in the South been in the three years following the Brown decision? This program, filmed in that year, brings together a panel of newsmen from the Southern Education Reporting Service to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Today, busing as a vehicle of public school desegregation is being phased out, but in 1971, when it was first mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Swann ruling, it was a volatile new process that had strongly polarized public opinion in many communities throughout the U.S. Filmed only five years after the controversial precedent was first put into practice, this program looks at events in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006