Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement

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.

ISBN	0813031621	Pages	336
ISBN13	9780813031620 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	University Press of Florida	Weight (grammes)	612
Imprint	University Press of Florida	Published in	Florida
Format	Hardback	Series title	Southern Dissent S.
Publication date	15 Jan 2008	Height (mm)	229
Library of Congress	2007027406	Width (mm)	152
DEWEY	379.2630975	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate

	Introduction. Higher Education, Black Access, and the Civil Rights Movement	1
1	Black Southerners and Nonblack Universities: The Process of Desegregating Southern Higher Education, 1935-1965 by Peter Wallenstein	17
2	Four Who Would: Constantine v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) and the Desegregation of Louisiana's State Colleges by Michael G. Wade	60
3	The Long Journey from LaGrange to Atlanta: Horace Ward and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia by Robert A. Pratt	92
4	Black Colleges and Civil Rights: Organizing and Mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi by Joy Ann Williamson	116
5	Prying the Door Farther Open: A Memoir of Black Student Protest at the University of Maryland at College Park, 1966-1970 by Hayward "Woody" Farrar	137
6	Hold That (Color) Line!: Black Exclusion and Southeastern Conference Football by Charles H. Martin	166
7	African American Women Pioneers in Desegregating Higher Education by Marcia G. Synnott	199
	Afterword. Unfinished Business	229
App. 1	Federal Initiatives on Race and Higher Education, 1890-1965	239
App. 2	University of Maryland v. Murray (Maryland, 1936)	242
App. 3	The U.S. Supreme Court and Segregation in Missouri (1938)	249
App. 4	President Truman's Commission on Higher Education (1946- 1948)	253
App. 5	McCready v. Byrd (Maryland, 1950)	257
App. 6	Sweatt v. Painter (1950)	262
App. 7	"Desegregation" at the University of Missouri (1950)	266
App. 8	Frasier v. Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina (1955)	270
App. 9	Interview with Theotis Robinson, Jr., of the University of Tennessee	275
App. 10	Model Universities and Racial Diversity	280

"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"

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