The Displacement of Black Educators Post-"Brown": An Overview and Analysis

Autor/in	Fultz, Michael
Titel	The Displacement of Black Educators Post-"Brown": An Overview and Analysis
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 44 (2004) 1, S.11-45 (35 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
DOI	10.1111/j.1748-5959.2004.tb00144.x
Schlagwörter	Job Security; African American Education; African American Teachers; Employment Level; Teacher Integration; Racial Discrimination; Court Litigation; Minority Groups; Teacher Dismissal; School Desegregation; Compliance (Legal); Advocacy; Politics of Education; Policy Analysis; Desegregation Effects + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; African Americans; Teacher; Teachers; Afroamerikaner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Beschäftigungsgrad; Racial bias; Rassismus; Rechtsstreit; Ethnische Minderheit; Lehrerbeurlaubung; Integrative Schule; Sozialanwaltschaft; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	In 1951, three brief commentaries in the "Journal of Negro Education" drew public attention to the potentially tenuous job security of African-American educators in the South, Black professionals whose employment status was being called into question as southern educational institutions faced the prospect of desegregation. The specific incident which occasioned these commentaries was a December 1950 vote by the Board of Trustees of the University of Louisville to close the segregated, all-Black Louisville Municipal College, which it had administered since that college was founded in 1931, and to integrate the two institutions' student bodies. In retrospect, all three of these commentaries presciently anticipated trends which would affect thousands of African-American educators in the South. In this article, the author presents an overview and analysis of the displacement of black educators during post-"Brown." "Displacement" became the phase which subsumed the many policies and practices of southern school boards, school superintendents, and politicians which sought to undermine the employment and authority of African-American school staff: dismissals, demotions, forced resignations, "nonhiring," token promotions, reduced salaries, diminished responsibility, coercion to teach subjects or grade levels other than those for which individuals were certified or had experience. This article discusses the discrimination of African-American school staff from 1950s to mid 1970s. (Contains 67 footnotes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	History of Education Society. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Educational Policy Studies, 360 Education Building MC-708, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820. Tel: 217-333-2446; Fax: 217-244-7064; e-mail: hes@ed.uiuc.edu; Web site: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/hes/publications.htm.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10