Ebook: Race and Education, 1954-2007

Dealing candidly with matters usually considered taboo in academic discourse, Wolters argues that the Supreme Court acted correctly and in accordance with public sentiment in Brown but that it later took a wrong turn by equating desegregation with integration. Wolters explains that while Brown called for desegregation by requiring that schools deal with students on a racially nondiscriminatory basis, subsequent decisions Green, Swann, Keyes required actual integration through racial balancing. Wolters challenges statistics that support the results of racial balancing by describing how school desegregation and integration actually proceeded in several towns, cities, and counties.