Book Reviews : Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860-1960

[...]even that era of deference included significant departures in the area of segregation. [...]despite students losing every case between 1910 and 1960, there was a "strong undercurrent of support for the procedural rights of students" (p. 105). [...]the desegregation cases called on justices to consider education as a right or privilege in a different way, demonstrated that institutions appealed to it for various and competing purposes, and showed that deference was far from unlimited. [...]it provides more evidence that those invested in higher education too often refer back to a golden age--real or imagined--as the normal state of higher education, when the history is much more complicated.