Tag: Desegregating

Free Download Alwyn Barr, "Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 029274692X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 14.9 mb
In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet history records that it took more than a decade of legal battles, civil rights protests, and, tragically, violent confrontations before black students gained full access to previously white schools.

Free Download Melissa Kean, "Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0807133582, 0807154474 | EPUB | pages: 333 | 0.5 mb
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at these universities took place voluntarily would be misleading In Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South,Melissa Kean explores how leaders at five of the region’s most prestigious private universities – Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt – sought to strengthen their national position and reputation while simultaneously answering the increasing pressure to end segregation.