Unending Struggle: The Long Road to an Equal Education in St. Louis - Softcover

Susan Uchitelle; Gerald W. Heaney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975318012 ISBN 13: 9780975318010

Publisher: Reedy Press, 2004

Synopsis

Segregated schooling in Missouri did not come to an end until 1983, when the U.S. District Court decision Liddell v. Board of Education of St. Louis mandated desegregation. In Unending Struggle, Judge Gerald W. Heaney and Dr. Susan Uchitelle recount the history of St. Louis’s struggle for an equal education for African Americans.
The Liddell lawsuit resulted in a comprehensive court-ordered plan, one of the most far-reaching strategies stemming from any desegregation case in the country. The plan included a voluntary interdistrict transfer program that placed thousands of urban black students in majority white schools in St. Louis County and called for racially desegregated magnet schools in the city. It required compensatory and remedial measures, including smaller classes, all-day kindergarten, and before- and after-school programs for students remaining in the city’s all-black schools. The plan also stipulated a major and expensive facilities program to renovate old schools and build new ones.
Historical research and the authors’ personal experiences are interspersed with interviews that reveal the perspectives of students, teachers, administrators, and public officials who participated in the St. Louis metropolitan area desegregation program. Unending Struggle provides the historical background and a diversity of voices largely missing from the national debate on how to deliver equal education to African American children.

About this title

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Unending Struggle: The Long Road to an Equal Education in St. Louis, a book by Judge Gerald W. Heaney and Dr. Susan Uchitelle, outlines the history of the desegregation process of St. Louis's public school system and recounts the history of St. Louis's struggle for an equal education for African Americans. Historical research and the authors' personal experiences are interspersed with interviews that reveal the perspectives of students, teachers, administrators, and public officials who participated in the St. Louis metropolitan area desegregation program. Unending Struggle provides the historical background and a diversity of voices largely missing from the national debate on how to deliver equal education to African American children.

About the Author

Judge Gerald W. Heaney has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for more than thirty-five years. He participated in federal school desegregation cases throughout Missouri, Arkansas, and Nebraska. Dr. Susan Uchitelle is a consultant. She is formerly the executive director of the Voluntary Interdistrict Coordinating Council, which was responsible for implementing the interdistrict aspect of the St. Louis desegregation plan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reedy Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0975318012
• ISBN 13: 9780975318010
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288