17 Publications
2019
‘Other minority’: multi-ethnic school desegregation experiences in two Chicago communities
Danns, Dionne
Race Ethnicity and Education, pp. 16, 2019-04-30. | Journal Article
2018
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools. By Rachel Devlin (New York: Basic Books, 2018. xxx plus 342 pp. $32.00)
Danns, Dionne
Journal of Social History, 2018-09-05. | Journal Article
 
Policy Implications for School Desegregation and School Choice in Chicago
Danns, Dionne
The Urban Review, vol. 50, (no. 4), pp. 603, 20181100. | Journal Article
2015
Introduction: Historical Perspectives on African American Education, Civil Rights, and Black Power
Danns, Dionne and Purdy, Michelle
Journal of African American History, vol. 100, (no. 4), pp. 585, 20151001. | Journal Article
 
Separate and Superior: Perspectives on African American Secondary EducationSharon Gay Pierson, Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2014. Pp. 308. Paper $42.95.Alison Stewart, First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 2013. Pp. 336. Cloth $26.95
Danns, Dionne
The Journal of African American History, vol. 100, (no. 4), pp. 680, 2015-10-00. | Journal Article
2013
Erica Frankenberg and Elizabeth DeBray, eds., Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. 352. Cloth $49.95. Paper $29.95
Danns, Dionne
The Journal of African American History, vol. 98, (no. 3), pp. 505, 2013-07-00. | Journal Article
 
In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform by John P. Spencer (review)
Danns, Dionne
American Studies, vol. 52, (no. 3), pp. 121, 2013. | Journal Article
2011
Northern Desegregation: A Tale of Two Cities
Danns, Dionne
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 51, (no. 1), pp. 77-104, Feb 2011. | Journal Article
 
ReviewPatricia A. Edwards, Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon, and Jennifer D. Turner, Change Is Gonna Come: Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students. New York: Teachers College Press, 2010. Pp. 224. $24.95
Danns, Dionne
The Journal of African American History, vol. 96, (no. 3), pp. 437, 2011-07-00. | Journal Article
2010
Chicago School Desegregation and the Role of the State of Illinois, 1971-1979
Danns, Dionne
American Educational History Journal, vol. 37, (no. 1), pp. 55-73, 2010. | Journal Article
2009
Dan R. Warren, If It Takes All Summer: Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
Danns, Dionne
The Journal of African American History, vol. 94, (no. 2), pp. 304, 2009-04-00. | Journal Article
 
Thriving in the Midst of Adversity: Educator Maudelle Brown Bousfield's Struggles in Chicago, 1920-1950
Danns, Dionne
The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 78, (no. 1), pp. 3-16, Winter 2009. | Journal Article
2008
Racial Ideology and the Sancity of the Neighborhood School in Chicago
Danns, Dionne
The Urban Review, vol. 40, (no. 1), pp. 64-75, 2008. | Journal Article
2007
Young Activists: American High School Students in the Age of Protests by Gael Graham
Danns, Dionne
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 47, (no. 4), pp. 510, 20071101. | Journal Article
2005
Chapter Eight: Chicago Teacher Reform Efforts and the Politics of Educational Change
Danns, Dionne
Counterpoints, vol. 237, pp. 196, 20050101. | Journal Article
2003
Chicago High School Students' Movement for Quality Public Education, 1966-1971
Danns, Dionne
The Journal of African American History, vol. 88, (no. 2), pp. 150, 20030401. | Journal Article
2001
Something better for our children: Black organizing in the Chicago public schools, 1963--1971 (Dissertation)
Danns, Dionne (2001).