BvB@67 - Rucker Johnson Revisited

<p>As we approach the 67th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/347us483">Brown v. Board of Education </a>(1954), we are revisiting our series looking at the stories we tell ourselves about Brown v. Board. The way we understand this case and its legacies do the work of making sense of our past and mapping out our future. </p><p>In this first episode, we are joined by <a href="https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/rucker-johnson">Dr. Rucker Johnson</a> (UC Berkeley). Dr. Johnson shares some of the research and findings in his book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18658/9781541672703">Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works</a>. Using a longitudinal study of the children and grandchildren of Brown v. Board, Dr. Johnson shows us that desegregation did have profoundly important effects on individuals and communities even while we gave up on it too quickly.</p><p>Register for the Integrated Schools <a href="https://integratedschools.org/book-club/">Book Club </a>in July.  We'll be reading Heather McGhee's <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-sum-of-us-what-racism-costs-everyone-and-how-we-can-prosper-together/9780525509561?aid=18658&listref=integrated-schools-bookclub-books" target="_blank"><i>The Sum of Us</i></a></p><p>Use these links or start at our <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/IntegratedSchools">Bookshop.org storefront</a> to support local bookstores, and send a portion of the proceeds back to us.  </p><p><a href="http://patreon.com/integratedschools" target="_blank"><strong>Join our Patreon</strong></a> to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.</p><p>Let us know what you think of this episode, suggest future topics, or share your story with us - <a href="https://twitter.com/integratedschls" target="_blank"><strong>@integratedschls </strong></a>on twitter, <a href="http://facebook.com/integratedschools" target="_blank"><strong>IntegratedSchools </strong></a>on Facebook, or