David S. Cecelski Quotes

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[Black parents... felt they lost their roles as allies in their children's education] often alienated by the desegregated schools [that] too closely resembled the former White schools values, tradition, political sensibilities, and cultural orientation.

David S. Cecelski

[Despite complaints by Black community leaders that Blacks were becoming] tired of having to bear the burdens of integration

David S. Cecelski

Most Blacks had supported the courageous struggles of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against both school inequality and school segregation. The demise of their schools and the inequitable burdens of school desegregation, however, raised new doubts. There emerged a notable continuity between older, more conservative African American voices, which had given the building of strong Black schools priority over desegregation, and the newer "militant" expressions of Black separatism and community control.

David S. Cecelski