Multimedia Collection
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise
DVD
60 minutes
LC214.2 .B49 2004 DVD
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 America. Fifty years later, the full promise of Brown v. Board of Education has yet to be fulfilled.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Brown, Emmy-winning director Stanley Nelson's Firelight Media undertakes one of the most comprehensive explorations of the legacy and impact of Brown, arguably the most important Supreme Court case of the 20th Century.
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