ILRLR 6865 - Thwarting the Dream of Brown v. Board of Education

Fall. 2 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ILRLR 4865.

L. Adler.

This course will review first the 19th and early 20th century US Supreme Court cases to understand how the Government created segregation in America. The first 80 years saw a number of twists and turns, including Brown in 1954. However, the institutional forces and structured momentum created by America’s zoning, housing, banking, lending laws and other governmental policies continued to push America into an actual physical segregated landscape that our schools then and now reflect. These developments were certified by a series of US Supreme Courts and state governmental taxation and legal policies that assisted in creating the current state of educational affairs in the US.