Point of Reckoning : The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University /

"Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continu...

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1. Verfasser: Segal, Theodore D., 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • A Plantation System: Desegregation
  • Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters
  • Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space
  • We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House
  • Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil
  • Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations
  • Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning
  • No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation
  • We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath
  • Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.