Research Catalog

Title

The politics of school desegregation : comparative case studies of community structure and policy-making / by Robert L. Crain. With the assistance of Morton Inger, Gerald A. McWorter [and] James J. Vanecko.

Author

Crain, Robert L.

Publication

Chicago : Aldine Pub. Co., [1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Inger, Morton
• McWorter, Gerald A.
• Vanecko, James J., 1941-

Description

xviii, 390 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

National Opinion Research Center. Monographs in social research ; 14

Uniform Title

Monographs in social research ; 14.

Subject

• Segregation in education
• Public schools > United States
• Community and school > United States
• School integration > United States
• School integration
• Community and school
• Public schools
• Segregation in education
• Segregation in education > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 373-377.

Contents

I. Eight northern cities : 1. St. Louis -- 2. Lawndale -- 3. Bay City -- 4. Newark -- 5. Buffalo -- 6. Baltimore -- 7. San Francisco -- 8. Pittsburgh -- II. An analysis of school policy-making : 9. Definition and overview -- 10. School system acquiescence -- 11. The school board -- 12. Community characteristics and school board recruitment -- III. Desegregation in New Orleans : 13. Overview -- 14. New Orleans: the failure of an elite -- 15. Why New Orleans? -- 16. The correlates of peace -- IV. The community and the civil rights movement : 17. The civil rights movement in northern cities -- 18. The civil rights movement in southern cities -- 19. School desegregation: north and south -- 20. Community structure and community decision-making.

LCCN

67027390

OCLC

• ocm00176100
• 176100
• SCSB-127169

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library