"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
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.
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Wallenstein, Peter.

Randall M. Miller

United States, United States of America

Southern Dissent, 2009

Gainesville, FL, 2009

New Edition, 2009

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Cover 1
Table of Contents vii 8
Foreword ix 10
Preface xi 12
Introduction Higher Education, Black Access, and the Civil Rights 1 18
1 Black Southerners and Nonblack Universities: The Process of Desegregating Southern Higher Education, 1935–1965 17 34
2 Four Who Would: Constantine v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) and the Desegregation of Louisiana’s State Colleges 60 77
3 The Long Journey from LaGrange to Atlanta: Horace Ward and the Desegregation of the University of Georgia 92 109
4 Black Colleges and Civil Rights: Organizing and Mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi 116 133
5 Prying the Door Farther Open: A Memoir of Black Student Protest at the University of Maryland at College Park, 1966–1970 137 154
6 Hold That (Color) Line!: Black Exclusion and Southeastern Conference Football 166 183
7 African American Women Pioneers in Desegregating Higher Education 199 216
Afterword: Unfinished Business 229 246
Appendix 1: Federal Initiatives on Race and Higher Education,1890–1965 239 256
Appendix 2: University of Maryland v. Murray (Maryland, 1936) 242 259
Appendix 3: The U.S. Supreme Court and Segregation in Missouri(1938) 249 266
Appendix 4: President Truman’s Commission on Higher Education(1946–1948) 253 270
Appendix 5: McCready v. Byrd (Maryland, 1950) 257 274
Appendix 6: Sweatt v. Painter (1950) 262 279
Appendix 7 “Desegregation” at the University of Missouri (1950) 266 283
Appendix 8: Frasier v. Board of Trustees of the University ofNorth Carolina (1955) 270 287
Appendix 9: Interview with Theotis Robinson Jr.,of the University of Tennessee 275 292
Appendix 10: Model Universities and Racial Diversity 280 297
Contributors 283 300
Index 285 302

<p>Nowhere else can one read about how <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i> 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.</p>
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<p>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. <i>Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement</i> examines an understudied aspect of racial history, revealing desegregation to be a process, not an event.</p>

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