| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee. By Jack Dougherty. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xviii, 253 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2855-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5524-3.)

This book, published in the fiftieth anniversary year of the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, attempts to help readers get beyond the dead ends that have plagued the school desegregation movement, particularly in the last twenty-five years. Jack Dougherty looks at the evolution of black school reform in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from its initial efforts to equalize the salaries of black and white teachers in the 1930s through the most recent efforts to desegregate the Milwaukee schools either by merging them with suburban districts in a metropolitan desegregation plan or by using private school vouchers to help black students escape from the city's substandard public schools. The key point for Dougherty is that the phenomenon under study is black school reform, and desegregation is simply one of several versions of black school reform; others pursued by black Milwaukeeans since 1930 have been compensatory education, community control, and black curriculum. Dougherty's book is especially rich in portraits of a variety of mostly male black school reform leaders in Milwaukee and of mostly female activists who were not leaders; many of those portraits were created through oral history interviews.

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