Berkeley Talks: Professor Rucker Johnson on why school integration works

Read the transcript. Subscribe to Berkeley Talks,  a podcast featuring lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. Integrated students sit in a classroom at Anacostia High School on Sept. 10, 1957, three years after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Bolling v. Sharpe case that outlawed school segregation in the District of Columbia. (Photo by Warren K. Leffler; courtesy of the Library of Congress via Flickr ) Brown v. Board of Education was hailed as a landmark decision for civil rights. But decades later, many consider school integration a failure. UC Berkeley professor Rucker C. Johnson's new book Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works shows the exact opposite is true.