Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252034775 ISBN 13: 9780252034770

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2009

Synopsis

Inspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document in its own right, preserving the reactions of many prominent intellectuals, artists, and activists fifty years after the decision.

 

Contributors are Kal Alston, Margaret L. Andersen, Kathryn H. Anthony, Nathaniel C. Banks, Bernice McNair Barnett, Christopher Benson, Ed Blankenheim, Julian Bond, Orville Vernon Burton, Jason Chambers, Constance Curry, Joseph A. De Laine Jr., Mary L. Dudziak, Joe R. Feagin, John Hope Franklin, Ophelia De Laine Gona, Lani Guinier, Darlene Clark Hine, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, John Jennings, Ralph Lemon, George Lipsitz, Jim Loewen, Laughlin McDonald, David O'Brien, James C. Onderdonk, Sekou Sundiata, Christopher Teal, Nicholas Watkins, Carrie Mae Weems, Juan Williams, and Joy Ann Williamson.

About this title

About the Author:

Orville Vernon Burton is Burroughs Distinguished Chair of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. David O'Brien is an associate professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Review:

"Provides wonderful insights . . . and should inspire others to continue the struggle to achieve educational equality in the United States."--The Journal of African American History

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0252034775
• ISBN 13: 9780252034770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Burton Orville Vernon, O'Brien David