The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation: Black Colleges, Title VI Compliance, and Post-Adams Litigation

by M. Christopher Brown II

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka (347 U.S. 483) overturned the prevailing doctrine of separate but equal introduced by Plessy v. Ferguson (163 U.S. 537) fifty-eight years prior. By the time Brown was decided, many states had created dual collegiate structures of public education, most of which operated exclusively for Caucasians in one system and African Americans in the other.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897896084
• ISBN13: 9780897896085
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"