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When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed a building here or there to block a specific desegregation order, only in Prince Edward did local authorities abandon public education entirely--and with every intention of permanence. When the public schools finally reopened after five years of struggle--under direct order of the Supreme Court--county authorities employed every weapon in their arsenal to ensure that the newly reopened system remained segregated, impoverished, and academically substandard. Intertwining educational and children's history with the history of the black freedom struggle, Titus draws on little-known archival sources and new interviews to reveal the ways that ordinary people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the United States.

'Looking Back at the Uganda Protectorate: Recollections of district officers' edited by Douglas Brown and Marcelle V. Brown is reviewed.

As part of his retirement from the U.S. Army, Sgt. Major Eriq Brown was screened for disability benefits. That's when a psychologist asked him if a pending criminal charge was causing him emotional issues. Brown was confused: He wasn't facing any charges. It turns out that another soldier had accused him of assault two years…

An Indiana teacher facing charges of neglect of a dependent and failure to report has given up her teaching license. The Brownsburg Police Department say Sara Seymour, who taught at Brown Elementary School, forced a 7-year-old student with special needs to eat his own vomit. Debra Kanipe, an instructional aide, was also charged with neglect…

1. 'Everything is politics' : understanding the political dimensions of NGO legitimacy in conflict-affected regions / Oliver Walton -- 2. The role and governance of Islamic faith organizations in South Africa / Justin Pierce -- 3. Co-operatives and the state in Burma/Myanmar 1900-2012 : a case study of failed top-down co-operative development models? / Anthony Webster -- 4. Charity reconstructed : the transformation of social welfare in rural Japan in the nineteenth century / Maren A. Ehlers -- 5. The salvation of religion? Public charity and new religions of the early Chinese Republic / Thomas Dubois -- 6. Re-creating Hui identity and the charity network in the imperial extension from Ming to Qing in the Southwest Chinese frontier / Ma Jianxiong -- 7. Universalistic humanitarianism in mainland China : a case study of a French NGO / Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce -- 8. In the world but not of the world : governing grassroots Christian charity in China / Nanlai Cao -- 9. Boundaries of nonstate welfare provision : comparative evidence from Turkey, Sudan and Germany / Fulya Apaydin -- 10. The diversity of Islamic charitable activities : analytical distinctions among Shi'a Muslim organizations in Lebanon / Melani Cammett -- 11. Saudi charitable impulse abroad : the coercive power of belief and money in Thailand / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- 12. Sa'udi charity to Hadhramaut as a bone of contention : the Hijaz Fund episode, 1949-50 / Christian Lekon -- 13. Comparative perspective on the growth and legal transformations of Arab (Islamic) charities / Benoit Challand -- 14. Colonial state and Muslim institutions : history of regulatory framework for Awqaf (religious endowments) in British India / Muhammad Zubair Abbasi.

AbstractThis article studies the ideational underpinnings of the UK Coalition government's 'liberal conservative' foreign policy. It begins by suggesting that an Iraq‐centric account of Blair's foreign policy suggests a grand vision on the prime minister's part that was lacking from his earlier foreign policy adventures, which relied on a more conventional form of British statecraft. The second section contends that the Gordon Brown years 2007–10 and, since the end of New Labour, Coalition foreign policy, can be seen as a response both to the substance and style of Blair's highly personalised stewardship of foreign policy post‐9/11. The war on terror and the invasion of Iraq were accompanied by a seemingly open‐ended democracy promotion around the globe which was quite out of character with past British practice. The article argues, therefore, that under Brown and Cameron cautious pragmatism has tended to win out over the proclamation of grand strategic ambition.

Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again.- Attributed to AurangzebThere is no safer way to blacken a person's reputation in the estimate of following generations than to attribute a wanton holocaust of wasted beauty to him.- Antonia Fraser on Oliver Cromwell