Desegregation in post-Brown Dallas, Texas: a historical narrative attributing the response and social activism efforts of African American Dallasites, 1950s-1970s

segregation;desegregation;resegregation;Texas history;Dallas;school;public school;Dallas Independent School District;Brown v Board

Parker, Jasmine D.

关键词: segregation;    desegregation;    resegregation;    Texas history;    Dallas;    school;    public school;    Dallas Independent School District;    Brown v Board;   

Others  :  https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/78723/PARKER-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

This study examines the role appointed desegregation committees had on the evolution of the publicschooling experience in Dallas, Texas during the mid-twentieth century. It has a twofold purposedating back to the eras commonly referred to as Plessy and Brown, respectively. On May 17, 1954,the Supreme Court of the United States presented to the world its reasoning in the case of Brown v.Board of Education. The Court declared legally segregated public schooling facilitiesunconstitutional. However, this original decision of the Court failed to enunciate how and whenschool districts were to end segregated schooling. In a later decision, known as Brown II, theorganizational strategies and implementation responsibilities in desegregation plans were designatedthe responsibility of city leadership, school boards, and local courts of law. Resultantly, this investigation seeks to address the relationship between local culture, civic leaders, and federalrequirements, specifically their influence and contribution, as it relates to the legal journey of creating institutionally desegregated facilities. These relationships are investigated to better understand the themes of access and equal opportunity when examining improved schoolingconditions in the Dallas Independent School District. Through the use of discourse analysis andnarrative storytelling via: interviews, newspapers, handwritten letters, judicial proceedings, judge’snotes, scholastic assessments, audio recordings, and field reports, this investigative study examineshow Dallas, a once segregated Southwestern city, responded to the Brown rulings by utilizingorganized desegregation strategies and tactics. Though civil rights history on the city of Dallas remains fragmented, this study seeks to fill gaps in the literature pertaining to Texas’ history ofdiscrimination and the desegregation of the Dallas Independent School District.