Desegregating Teachers: Contesting the Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity in the
South post Brown explores the battle to desegregate public school teachers in the South. It
also considers the implications of linking racially balanced school faculties to equal
educational opportunities for African American students. This book demonstrates that the legal
struggle to desegregate teachers and other school personnel is critical to understanding the
politics of school desegregation in the South and perhaps elsewhere. Its premise is that the
status of educators - far from being at the margins of the desegregation story - was central in
shaping the desegregation process and outcomes. This is important today as student populations
became largely resegregated. To capture the dynamics of faculty desegregation at the district
level this book explores the process in two distinct southern metropolitan areas: Jackson
Mississippi and Tampa Florida. This is an important book for researchers professors and
pre-service teachers.
