Higher education and the civil rights movement : white supremacy, black Southerners, and college campuses / edited by Peter Wallenstein ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallenstein, Peter.

Series:

Southern dissent

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College integration--Southern States--History.

College integration.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History.

Civil rights movements.

Social change--Southern States--History.

Social change.

History.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xv, 298 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Black southerners and nonblack universities : the process of desegregating Southern higher education, 1935-1965 / Peter Wallenstein

Four who would : Constantine v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) and the desegregation of Louisiana's state colleges / Michael G. Wade

The long journey from LaGrange to Atlanta : Horace Ward and the desegregation of the University of Georgia / Robert A. Pratt

Black colleges and civil rights : organizing and mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi / Joy Ann Williamson

Prying the door farther open : a memoir of black student protest at the University of Maryland at College Park, 1966-1970 / Hayward "Woody" Farrar

Hold that (color) line! : black exclusion and Southeastern Conference Football / Charles H. Martin

African American women pioneers in desegregating higher education / Marcia G. Synnott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813031620

0813031621

OCLC:

154677811