Minnie Liddell's Forty-Year Quest for Quality Public Education Remains a Dream Deferred
Publication Title
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
Abstract
This Article is a historic account of the hopes and dreams that a mother had for her children and her efforts to make those hopes and dreams come true. The mother, Minnie Liddell, never imagined, when she first became a mom in 1959, or years later after the birth of her fifth child, or even after she filed a lawsuit against a city school district, that she would become a pioneer and icon in the school desegregation history of St. Louis, Missouri. She really only wanted a quality public education for her children, for black children, for all children. This Article will tell the story of Mrs. Liddell‘s quest for a quality education for her children, and it will take a look at where that journey stands today.
Recommended Citation
Kimberly Jade Norwood,
Minnie Liddell's Forty-Year Quest for Quality Public Education Remains a Dream Deferred,
40
Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y
001
(2012),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol40/iss1/2