'After Brown' Book Review by Master Researcher

This paper discusses the book "After Brown" by Charles T. Clotfelter, noting how the author tells the story of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education and its aftermath. It further suggests that many of the gains made early were later lost and that the underlying dedication to achieving school desegregation gave way later to efforts by many whites to undercut such gains and to separate their children from the public school system entirely or to reduce the effects of desegregation through white flight, battles against busing, and the elevation of the neighborhood school as a goal.