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Others assume - perhaps because of the little discussion of desegregation in educational policy debates - that we have done all that can be done.

Some say that this demonstrates that desegregation failed and that we are worse off than before the famous court decision whose 50th anniversary we are celebrating. The abandonment is driven, in part, by Supreme Court decisions ending desegregation orders. School desegregation, celebrated as a historic accomplishment, is being abandoned in practice as much of urban America turns back to segregated neighborhood schools. Historian John Hope Franklin, echoing the words of W.E.B. By any standard of measurement or evaluation the problem has not been solved in the 20th century and thus becomes part of the legacy and burden of the next century. More specifically, the book constructs a narrative from which society can begin to understand how the Brown Court defined the harms of discrimination too narrowly and, more so, how this limited understanding of the harms of discrimination-here, segregation-has unintentionally resulted in the development of anti-discrimination doctrine that is unable to lead us to true racial equality.The problem of the 21st century will be the problem of the color line.

In particular, the novel opens a pathway that enables its readers to visualize the full harms of white supremacy, which include not only the detrimental effects of experiencing discrimination for Blacks but also the dehumanizing effects of perpetrating discrimination, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, for Whites. Supreme Court held that state-mandated racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Board of Education, the case in which the U.S. The long-revered work of fiction contains several key scenes that illuminate significant gaps in the analysis of one of our most celebrated decisions: Brown v. The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is no different. For decades, literature has played a vital role in revealing weaknesses in law.