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Title: Toward the Resegregation of Southern Schools: African American Suburbanization and Historical Erasure in Freeman v. Pitts
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: This article reconstructs the story behind Freeman v. Pitts (1992), one of the main US Supreme Court cases that made it easier for school districts to terminate court desegregation orders and that, in turn, helped to propel a widely documented trend: the resegregation of southern schools. The case in part hinged on the question of whether school officials in an Atlanta suburb were responsible for the racial segregation that had developed in the area alongside the rapid settlement of African Americans there in the late twentieth century. Thus, along with shedding new light on how the South transitioned from an era focused on desegregation to one enabling resegregation, the article makes contributions to two areas of increasing scholarly interest: the history of African American suburbanization and the history of suburban school districts. Finally, the article underscores disconcerting patterns in how the Supreme Court utilized history in Freeman.
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Authors: Amsterdam, Daniel
Periodical (Full): History of Education Quarterly
Issue: 4
Volume: 57
Pages: 451-479
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Education, Race and Ethnicity
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