Abstract
Much of the scholarship on urban children and families has focused on ways to increase the involvement of parents of colour in the education of their children. However, these suggestions for increasing parental involvement ignore the long tradition of activism in the courts as families have fought through the legal system for equal educational opportunity. In this article, the author examines the Rockford, Illinois desegregation cases, noting the historical parallels to Plessy vs Ferguson and Brown vs Board of Education and arguing that the long struggle of parents of colour in Rockford for educational opportunity is the ultimate form of parental involvement.
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