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Nacogdoches Integration and Segregation, Then and Now / edited by Dawn Michelle Williams and Brandon L. Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Race discrimination.
- Race discrimination--Texas--Nacogdoches--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Texas--Nacogdoches--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Texas--Nacogdoches.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Thomas J. Rusk Elementary School, in Nacogdoches, Texas, houses a carved stone dedication plaque in its gymnasium's entryway. It reads " This gymnasium is dedicated to the White children of Nacogdoches." In those days, Nacogdoches was unapologetically segregated. It was a matter of not only custom but also of law. In respect to segregation, Nacogdoches was little different than other communities in the Jim Crow South. Its location in Texas, however, helped to obscure this fact. While the US Supreme Court ended segregation in public schools on May 17, 1954, Nacogdoches schools were not forced to integrate until 1970. This book is comprised of essays that paint a portrait of Nacogdoches both before and after integration. Readers will find a collection of essays written by scholars but also by people who have firsthand experience in conflicts that arose in Nacogdoches after 1970. The essays focus upon both the objective, measurable dimensions of race in Nacogdoches, but also upon the actual lived experiences of African Americans in rural East Texas.
- Contents:
- Cultural trauma and social inequality in South Texas / Jerry L. Williams
- Los Adaes : the fugitive safe house / Rolonda Teal
- A case study from early Nacogdoches : Bernardo and Raphael D'Ortolan / Tom Middlebook
- East Texas : fom [sic] post civil rights to the Obama era / Dianne Dentice
- The changing racial and Hispanic composition of Nacogdoches and its educational institutions / Robert F. Szafran
- Integration and re-segregation : voices from the past and present / D. Michelle Williams
- Paradise lost / Osaro E. Airen, Justin Ikpo, Kim Foli, & Alisha Hall
- My story : experiencing the racial environment of the 60s and 70s in Nacogdoches, Texas / Verdis Daniels
- I have a voice, so listen! / Booke La'Shun Taylor- Johnson, Brandon L. Fox, and Patrick S. De Walt
- Social injustice in East Texas : a social work perspective / Emmerentie Oliphant and David Mitchell
- Confessing whiteness / Kyle Childress.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62288-200-8
- OCLC:
- 1077755035
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