01695nam a22002537a 4500 20260515155718.0 260515m2023 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780226825526 PK-LaUMT 344.730798 MEL-C Melnick, R. Shep 11803 The crucible of desegregation : the uncertain search for educational equality / R. Shep Melnick Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023 xiv, 310 p. Chicago series in law and society Includes bibliographical references and index. In 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. Eng Education and state 11228 Education and state-United States 11804 School integration Law and legislation 11805 School integration-United States-History 11806 BK 140801 140801 0 0 0 0 01 01 2026-05-15 0 344.730798 MEL-C 152636 2026-05-15 15:57:37 2026-05-15 BK