Author:
Holden, Anna.
Imprint:New York : Agathon Press; distributed by Schocken Books, [1974]
Descriptionxi, 500 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 455-472.
Note:"The Commission on Civil Rights wanted to point out 'the lessons of successful desegregation for other school districts (p.viii]' and contracted with the author [Anna Holden] and the Center for Urban Education to study three disricts that had made 'important gains' in the mid-1960s. The districts were selected on the basis of such factors as geography, ethnic composition, and obstacles overcome, and are relatively unpublicized and intrinsically interesting ones -- Charlottesville, Virginia; Providence, Rhode Island; and Sacramento, California. The data were collected in 1969 and updated to 1972, but the chronology is extended backwards to the beginning of desegregation in each city, to 1955 in Charlottesville, 1960 in Providence, and 1963 in Sacramento." -- from a review by Nancy H. St. John, American Educational Research Journal, v. 12, no. 1, Winter 1975, pp. 90-93
