Against the wind
Subtitle: African Americans and the schools in Milwaukee, 1963-2002
By: by Bill Dahlk
Series: Urban life series -- no. 5; Urban life series (Milwaukee, Wis.) -- no. 5.
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milwaukee, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9780874620788
Subjects: School integration; Race relations; African American students; Discrimination in education; Education; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.653-656) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black Milwaukee in 1963 & intergrationalist insurgencies, 1958-1968. Early stirrings, 1958-1963 ; Black Milwaukee in 1963 : marginalized but optimistic in the "machine shop of the world" ; The crusade engages the iceberg, 1963-66 ; Father Groppi & the commandos : the emergence of a self-determinst tendency; title: African American self-determinism, 1967-1975. The united community action group challenges MPS ; North Division High School : the community begins to claim its own, 1967- 1973 ; From Washington High School to Clifford McKissick Community School : a self-determinist tale ; Independent community schools : the emergence of an alternative, 1968-1972 ; The education of Larry Harwell; title: From segregation to stratification, 1970-1986. Transitional schools : black & white proprietorship in conflict, 1970-1975 ; The iceberg cracks : the desegregation of Milwaukee Public Schools, 1976-1980 ; From blacks for two-way integration to coalition to save North Division : a triumph proprietorship ; Integrationists pursue a metropolitan solution and educational nationalists respond ; The Mitchell Commission & the end of the McMurrin regime; title: From integration to a system of schools, 1987-2002. Economic devastation & the rise of gangs ; New guard, revised agenda, two camps : 1987-1990 ; Macro schemes & African American immersion schools, 1988, 1991 ; Outside reformers triumphant: the Milwaukee parental choice program ; The Fuller superintendence : laying the foundation for a "system of schools" ; Reforms & proprietorship, 1995-2002 : a system of schools emerges ; From segregation to stratification : the uneven course of proprietorship, 1963-2002.