Remembrances in Black : personal perspectives of the African American experience at the University of Arkansas, 1940s-2000s / Charles F. Robinson II, Lonnie R. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Charles F. (Charles Frank)

Contributor:

Williams, Lonnie R., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville--Students--Interviews.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville--Employees--Interviews.

African Americans--Education (Higher)--Arkansas--Fayetteville--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African American college students--Arkansas--Fayetteville--History--20th century.

African American college students.

African Americans--Arkansas--Fayetteville--Social conditions--20th century.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--Arkansas--Fayetteville--History--20th century.

Education, Higher.

Discrimination in education--Arkansas--Fayetteville--History--20th century.

Discrimination in education.

College integration--Arkansas--Fayetteville--History--20th century.

College integration.

Physical Description:

xx, 335 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the admittance in 1948 of Silas Hunt to the University of Arkansas Law School, the university became the first southern public institution of higher education to officially desegregate without being required to do so by court order. The process was difficult, but an important first step had been taken. Other students would follow in Silas Hunt's footsteps, and they along with the university would have to grapple with the situation. Remembrances in Black is an oral history that gathers the personal stories of African Americans who worked as faculty and staff and of students who studied at the state's flagship institution. These stories illustrate the anguish, struggle, and triumph of individuals who had their lives indelibly marked by their experiences at the school. Organized chronologically over sixty years, this book illustrates how people of color navigated both the evolving campus environment and that of the city of Fayetteville in their attempt to fulfill personal aspirations. Their stories demonstrate that the process of desegregation proved painfully slow to those who chose to challenge the forces of exclusion. Also, the remembrances question the extent to which desegregation has been fully realized.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Key to the Organization of This Book

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

L. Clifford Davis

George W. B. Haley

Christopher C. Mercer Jr.

Chapter 2: Taking the Moderate Path

Waldo Bronson

Melvin Eugene Dowell

Peter G. Faison

George Mays

Gordon D. Morgan

Helen Maxine Sutton Cannon

Sanford Tollette III

George L. Wesley

Billie Rose Whitfield Jacobs

Marjorie Wilkins Williams

Chapter 3: To Prevent "Irreparable Harm"

Sharon E. Bernard

Harold B. Betton

Darrell Brown Sr.

Margaret Clark

Viralene J. Coleman

Alice Davis Butler

Joanna P. Edwards

Wendell L. Griffen

Letter to Chancellor White

Eugene Hunt

Jerry Leon Jennings

Gerald Jordan

Jackie "Jack" Ray Kearney

Almer Lee

Hiram McBeth III

George McGill

George B. Miller Jr.

Gene E. McKissic Sr.

Resolution-Black Alumni Society to University

Ray E. McKissic

Vernon Murphy

Deborah Hill Thompson

Semon Frank Thompson Jr.

Sanford Tollette IV

Earnestine Banks Walton Russell

George W. Whitfield

Robert Whitfield

Robert Whitfield, Melvin Eugene Dowell, and Semon F. Thompson Jr.

Chapter 4: BAD Challenges Desegregation in the 1970s

Lenthon B. Clark

Shirley Clark

John L Colbert

Edward Duffy

Dinah Gail Gant

Patricia L. Greene Griffen

E. Lynn Harris

Karen Harris Tate

Kenneth "Muskie" Harris

Rhonda Bell Holmes

Tracy Holmes Sr.

Lynda Jackson Browne

Hannibal B. Johnson

Janis F. Kearney

Terry G. Lee

Charles Magee

Angela Mosley Monts

Lloyd A. Myers

C. Calvin Smith

Morris Sylvester

Frederick Tollette

Charlie L. Tolliver

Trent A. Walton

Lonnie R. Williams

Chapter 5: "Making an Honest Effort"

LaTonia Clark George

Dexter L. Howard

Reena M. Jackson Holmes.

Merike Manley

Karen Mathis Mongo

Roderick J. McDavis

Katina Revels

Cedric E. Williams

Chapter 6: Desegregation Work Still in Progress

Celia Anderson

Eddie Armstrong

Johnetta Cross Brazzell

Kevin Dedner

William Jeffrey "Giovanni" Flanigan

Crystal D. Hendricks Green

Tanisha L. Joe-Conway

Monica M. Jones

Trenia Miles

Cynthia E. Nance

Ebony Oliver Wyatt

Terry N. Perkins Rolfe

La Tina Watkins Washington

Lisa Williams

Chapter 7: Destination

Randy Dorian Brown Jr.

Synetra Gilmer

Quantrell Willis

Afterword

Epilogue

Appendix A: Biographies of the Interviewees

Appendix B: African American Enrollment at the University of Arkansas

Appendix C: African American Timeline at the University of Arkansas

Notes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61075-342-9

OCLC:

769187838