Minnie Liddell's Forty-Year Quest for Quality Public Education Remains a Dream Deferred

Authors

Kimberly Jade Norwood, Washington University in St. Louis School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

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, it will look at the twenty-seven year court case and it will take a look at where the journey for quality education stands in St. Louis today.

Keywords

Liddell, Desegregation, Education, School Desegregation, St. Louis, Minnie Liddell, Education Equality, Civil Rights, Public Education, Racial Inequality, Legal History

Publication 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 1 (2012)

Repository Citation

Norwood, Kimberly Jade, "Minnie Liddell's Forty-Year Quest for Quality Public Education Remains a Dream Deferred" (2012). Scholarship@WashULaw. 632.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/632