Short Introduction to Racial Inequalities in American Education

Name: Short Introduction to Racial Inequalities in American Education
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Author: Marta Zapała-Kraj
ISBN: 978-3-668-96023-7

Essay, 2018

41 Pages, Grade: 5.0

Marta Zapała-Kraj (Author)

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter One
Education of Black until the Revolution
1.1. The Education of Negroes in Colonial Beginnings
1.2. Temporary Change in the Education Privileges for Negroes
1.3. The Return to ‘Normalcy’
1.4. The Situation of African Americans’ Education after the Civil War

Chapter Two
Racial inequality in American Public education until 1954
The Importance of Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann for Education
2.1.1. The Common School Movement
2.2. ‘Education as the Hope for Betterment’ and an Actual Situation
2.3. W.E.B. DuBois vs. Booker T. Washington - the Educational Debate
2.4. Further Changes in Education of African Americans between XIX-th and XX-th Century
2.5. Brown vs. Board of Education

Chapter Three
The Aftermath of Brown v. Board - Educational Equality amidst the Social Upheavals between 1954 and 1970’s
3.1. The Little Rock Nine
3.2. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its Impact on Education
3.2.1. The Equality of Educational Opportunity Research
3.3. The Elementary and Secondary School Act
3.4. The Most Crucial U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on Education Desegregation
3.4.1. Goss v. Board of Education
3.4.2. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
3.4.3. Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
3.5. Busing and Resulting White Flight

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Title: Short Introduction to Racial Inequalities in American Education
Grade: 5.0
Author: Marta Zapała-Kraj (Author)
Year: 2018
Pages: 41
Catalog Number: V471002
ISBN (eBook): 9783668960220
ISBN (Book): 9783668960237
Language: English
Notes: Marta Zapała-Kraj is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Literary Studies at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. A master's degree in English philology and a translator. I am interested in implementing new technologies to help educate dysfunctional children and youth. For over 15 years I taught English in state and private schools. I also worked as an interpreter. I have been a freelance lecturer for several years. My interests include various areas - from philosophy, through English literature, to digital technologies.
Keywords: education, America, race, gender, The Little Rock Nine, W.E.B. DuBois, Bussing

Quote paper: Marta Zapała-Kraj (Author), 2018, Short Introduction to Racial Inequalities in American Education, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/471002

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