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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Jack Dougherty. More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 253. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.
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| Jack Dougherty's masterful study of six decades of black educational struggle in Milwaukee demonstrates the power of telling the story of the civil rights movement through the frame of a northern city. It illustrates the utility of pulling the timeline of the movement forward and backward (from 1930 to 1990) and of moving beyond a strict civil rights-black power binary. Dougherty, as the title suggests, sees more than one educational struggle and thus includes—but does not focus solely on—efforts for school integration. |
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The book begins in 1930s Milwaukee, where not one black person was employed as a public school teacher. Urban League executive director William Kelley made a strategic compromise to push for the hiring of black teachers in black schools and then used the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision to pressure the school board to hire more black teachers. By 1960, 191 black teachers had been hired. |
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