Brown decision

Brown’s Faint Revival

By Susan E. Eaton

Winter 2004

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in the public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the minority group of equal educational opp [...]

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A Dream Deferred: Integrated Education In America

By Ted Genoways

Winter 2004

I have chosen to begin my first issue as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review with a special portfolio of work on a subject dear to my predecessor: integrated education. Staige D. Blackford first made a name for himself in March 1952 when, as a gr [...]

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The Journey to School Integration

By Toni Morrison

Winter 2004

Whenever I see sheets drying on the line or smell gumbo simmering on the stove, a flood of memories comes to me. In 1953 when I traveled in the rural South with a group of students, we received the generosity of strangers—African Americans who took us in when there were no places for nonwhites to eat or sleep.

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