Nothing Less Than Equality: The Battle Over Segregated Education in the Nation's Capital

Author/Contributor(s):	Hamilton, Tikia K
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	04/24/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Tikia Hamilton excavates the history of educational activism in early-twentieth-century Washington, DC, revealing complex dynamics that provide a counterpoint and backdrop to Brown v. Board of Education. Some Black parents, teachers, and activists believed agitating for governments to live up to the Jim Crow doctrine of "separate but equal" by providing more resources to Black schools would result in better outcomes than integrated schools would. And for a time, this seemed true in Washington, where the process also fostered a significant Black presence in public life. Yet as Hamilton shows, a sea change in activism led to the embrace of integration and important steps in the fight for Brown"--