RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Second-Class Integration: A Historical Perspective for a Contemporary Agenda
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 269
OP 284
DO 10.17763/haer.79.2.b1637p4u4093484m
VO 79
IS 2
A1 Walker, Vanessa Siddle
YR 2009
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/79/2/269.abstract
AB In this essay, Vanessa Siddle Walker invokes the voices of black educators who challenged the diluted and failed vision for an integrated South after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandating school desegregation. Through collaboration and activism, these educators fought against the second-class integration implemented in the southern states and instead advocated for true equality and empowerment for black children entering integrated schools. Walker demonstrates that these educators' critiques are strikingly applicable to the present U.S. educational system,as they highlight our country's failure to provide educational equity despite decades of debate about its necessity and reforms to address the injustices. She advises President Obama's administration to incorporate these original visions of black educators in efforts to craft and advance a new vision for integration and racial equality in schools.