Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools

by Gregory S. Jacobs

Book Overview

Getting Around Brown is both the first history of school desegregation in Columbus, Ohio, and the first case study to explore the interplay of desegregation, business, and urban development in America.

Drawing on a broad range of sources, including over sixty interviews, the book details the causes and consequences of Penick v. Columbus Board of Education (1977). Gregory S. Jacobs argues that school desegregation in Columbus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814207219
• ISBN13: 9780814207215
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up