The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
By: Michelle Adams | Hardcover
The epic story of Detroitâs struggle to integrate schools in its suburbsâand the defeat of desegregation in the North.
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movementâs struggle for a truly equal education for all. How did this come about, and why?
In The Containment, the esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate Detroit schoolsâand what happened when it collided with Nixon-appointed justices committed to a judicial counterrevolution. Adams chronicles the devoted activists who tried to uplift Detroit's students amid the upheavals of riots, Black power, and white flightâand how their efforts led to federal judge Stephen Rothâs landmark order to achieve racial balance by tearing down the walls separating the city and its suburbs. The âmetropolitan remedyâ could have remade the landscape of racial justice. Instead, the Supreme Court ruled that the suburbs could not be a part of the effort to integrateâand thus upheld the inequalities that remain in place today.
Adams tells this story via compelling portraits of a city under stress and of key figuresâincluding Detroitâs first Black mayor, Coleman Young, and Justices Marshall, Rehnquist, and Powell. The result is a legal and historical drama that exposes the roots of todayâs backlash against affirmative action and other efforts to fulfill the countryâs promise.
By: Michelle Adams | Hardcover
The epic story of Detroitâs struggle to integrate schools in its suburbsâand the defeat of desegregation in the North.
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movementâs struggle for a truly equal education for all. How did this come about, and why?
In The Containment, the esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate Detroit schoolsâand what happened when it collided with Nixon-appointed justices committed to a judicial counterrevolution. Adams chronicles the devoted activists who tried to uplift Detroit's students amid the upheavals of riots, Black power, and white flightâand how their efforts led to federal judge Stephen Rothâs landmark order to achieve racial balance by tearing down the walls separating the city and its suburbs. The âmetropolitan remedyâ could have remade the landscape of racial justice. Instead, the Supreme Court ruled that the suburbs could not be a part of the effort to integrateâand thus upheld the inequalities that remain in place today.
Adams tells this story via compelling portraits of a city under stress and of key figuresâincluding Detroitâs first Black mayor, Coleman Young, and Justices Marshall, Rehnquist, and Powell. The result is a legal and historical drama that exposes the roots of todayâs backlash against affirmative action and other efforts to fulfill the countryâs promise.
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By: Michelle Adams | Hardcover
The epic story of Detroitâs struggle to integrate schools in its suburbsâand the defeat of desegregation in the North.
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movementâs struggle for a truly equal education for all. How did this come about, and why?
In The Containment, the esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate Detroit schoolsâand what happened when it collided with Nixon-appointed justices committed to a judicial counterrevolution. Adams chronicles the devoted activists who tried to uplift Detroit's students amid the upheavals of riots, Black power, and white flightâand how their efforts led to federal judge Stephen Rothâs landmark order to achieve racial balance by tearing down the walls separating the city and its suburbs. The âmetropolitan remedyâ could have remade the landscape of racial justice. Instead, the Supreme Court ruled that the suburbs could not be a part of the effort to integrateâand thus upheld the inequalities that remain in place today.
Adams tells this story via compelling portraits of a city under stress and of key figuresâincluding Detroitâs first Black mayor, Coleman Young, and Justices Marshall, Rehnquist, and Powell. The result is a legal and historical drama that exposes the roots of todayâs backlash against affirmative action and other efforts to fulfill the countryâs promise.
