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Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise

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Producer(s)Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, Lulie Haddad, Cyndee Readdean, John Valadez
Director(s)Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, Lulie Haddad, Cyndee Readdean, John Valadez
Release Date2004
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Runtime60 min
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Educational Materials Yes

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Boston-area officials consider abandoning a voluntary busing program that shepherds inner-city African-American students to better schools. Inequitable funding of New York schools perpetuate racial and economic disadvantage. Los Angeles schools separate Latino and African-American students from their White and Asian counterparts with “ability tracking.” Thousands of minority third-graders in Florida risk being held back by high stakes testing.

On May 17, 1954, in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal,” ending legal segregation in American education. Fifty years later, the full promise of Brown v. Board of Education has yet to be fulfilled.

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Related IssuesEconomic Justice, Illiteracy, Family & Society, Politics/Government, Racial Justice, African-American, Latino, Racial Discrimination, Youth, Educational reform, Middle East