Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement

White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses

Randall M Miller editor Peter Wallenstein editor Stanley Harrold editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University Press of Florida

Published:6th Jan '08

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Nowhere else can one read about how Brown v. Board of Education transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state after state, across the South. And no other book details the continuing struggle to change each school in the years that followed the enrollment of the first African American students.Institutions of higher education long functioned as bastions of white supremacy and black exclusion. Against the walls of Jim Crow and the powers of state laws, black southerners - prospective students, their parents and families, their lawyers and their communities - struggled to gain access and equity. ""Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement"" examines an understudied aspect of racial history, revealing desegregation to be a process, not an event.

The first comprehensive study of the process of desegregation as it unfolded during the twentieth century at the flagship universities and white land-grant institutions of the south. - Amy Thompson McCandless, College of Charleston ""Broadens the discussion of the civil rights movement to include academic spaces as sites of struggle and contributes to southern history by providing unique accounts of black agency during the dismantling of the Jim Crow South."" - Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida

ISBN: 9780813031620

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 611g

336 pages