Blacks against Brown : the intra-racial struggle over segregated schools in Topeka, Kansas / Charise L. Cheney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheney, Charise L., author.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Topeka (Kan.)--Race relations.

Topeka (Kan.).

Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961--Trials, litigation, etc.

Brown, Oliver.

Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials, litigation, etc.

Segregation in education--Law and legislation--Kansas--Topeka--History--20th century.

Segregation in education.

Educational equalization--Law and legislation--Kansas--Topeka--History--20th century.

Educational equalization.

Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--Kansas--Topeka--History--20th century.

Discrimination in education.

School integration--Law and legislation--Kansas--Topeka--History--20th century.

School integration.

African American schools--Kansas--Topeka--History--20th century.

African American schools.

African Americans--Kansas--Topeka--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) is regarded as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. Historical observers have widely viewed this landmark Supreme Court decision as a significant sign of racial progress for African Americans. However, there is another historical perspective that tells a much more complex tale of Black resistance to the NAACP's decision to pursue desegregating America's public schools. This multifaceted history documents the intra-racial conflict among Black Topekans over the city's segregated schools. Black resistance to school integration challenges conventional narratives about Brown by highlighting community concerns about economic and educational opportunities for Black educators and students and Black residents' pride in all-Black schools. This history of the local story behind Brown v. Board contributes to a literature that provides a fuller and more complex perspective on African Americans and their relationship to Black education and segregated schools during the Jim Crow era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Over John Brown's dead body: white supremacy and white liberalism in Kansas

The alchemy of race and rights: separate but equal in Topeka Public Schools, 1861-1954

Reading, ri(gh)ting, and resistance: racial uplift ideologies and practices in Topeka's all-Black schools, 1929-1954

Graham v. Board and the clash of the Black counterpublics

Harrison Caldwell: the unsung Black antihero of Brown

Blacks against Brown: the final chapter, 1941-1954.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469681641

1469681641

9781469681658

146968165X

OCLC:

1429886787

Publisher Number:

90100763059