01610nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000130007608200220008910000210011124501020013226000530023430000160028749000380030350000510034152008300039254600080122265000240123065000380125465000430129265000450133520260515155718.0260515m2023    |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780226825526  cPK-LaUMT  a344.730798bMEL-C1 aMelnick, R. Shep10aThe crucible of desegregation :bthe uncertain search for educational equality /cR. Shep Melnick  aChicago:bThe University of Chicago Press,c2023  axiv, 310 p.  aChicago series in law and society  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aIn 1954, the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education -- establishing the right to attend a desegregated school as a national constitutional right -- but the decision contained fundamental ambiguities. In close to three dozen decisions on school desegregation, the Supreme Court has never offered a clear definition of what desegregation means or laid out a framework for understanding or adjudicating between competing interpretations. In the 'Crucible of Desegregation', R. Shep Melnick examines the evolution of federal school desegregation policy from 1954 through the termination of desegregation orders in the first decades of the 21st century, combining legal analysis with a focus on institutional relations, particularly the interactions between federal judges and administrators.  aEng  aEducation and state  aEducation and state-United States  aSchool integration Law and legislation  aSchool integration-United States-History