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School Desegregation

Oral Histories toward Understanding the Effects of White Domination

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Editors:
  1. George W. Noblit

    1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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  • The oral histories in this book teach what happened during and after school desegregation, correcting the textbook American history that has ‘whitewashed’ white resistance, subterfuge and backlash to school desegregation and which continues to shape education discourse and policy to today.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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    1. Introduction

      • George W. Noblit
      Pages 1-18

  3. The Shift to Desegregated Schools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Remembering Pre- and Post-Desegregation in Northeastern North Carolina

      • Sherick Hughes, Amy Swain
      Pages 21-35

    3. Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia

      • Ashley P. Murray, Delores D. Liston
      Pages 37-49

    4. Segregation and Desegregation in Parsons, Kansas

      • Jean Patterson
      Pages 51-61

    5. A Historically Black High School Remains Intact

      • Gerrelyn Patterson
      Pages 63-76

  4. Student Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. The Final Days of Douglass School

      • Jean Patterson
      Pages 79-88

    3. Dan Edwards1 Remembering Desegregation in Tampa

      • Barbara J. Shircliffe
      Pages 89-102

    4. Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia

      • Ashley P. Murray, Delores D. Liston
      Pages 103-115

    5. Marilyn Matthiew1: Remembering Desegregation in Tampa

      • Barbara J. Shircliffe
      Pages 117-127

    6. Just Let them have the School

      • Gerrelyn Patterson
      Pages 129-142

  5. Implementation and Administration of Desegregated Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Ambivalence, Angst, and Hope

      • Natalie Adams, James H. Adams
      Pages 145-157

    3. “It’s Time to make Things Right”

      • Kate Willink
      Pages 159-177

    4. Implementing the “Law of the Land”

      • James H. Adams, Natalie Adams
      Pages 179-193

    5. Conclusion

      • George W. Noblit, Matthew Green
      Pages 195-221

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 223-225
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About this book

This book is written for the Millennial Generation to educate them about what school desegregation was actually about—the struggle over white domination in the United States. The textbooks they read as high school students describe the heroic efforts of African Americans to achieve civil rights but do not describe who was denying them these rights—white Americans. The oral histories in this book reveal how individuals navigated efforts to achieve educational equity amidst efforts to reassert white domination. These accounts counter the textbook history the Millennial Generation read which omits the massive white resistance to school desegregation, the various ways whites used subterfuge to slow down and redirect school desegregation in what would more benefit whites, and the concerted white political backlash that has been ensconced in educational policy and reform beginning with A Nation at Risk and continuing in No Child Left Behind. That is, educational policy as we know it is all about asserting white domination and not about educating children, and thus the Millennial Generation is faced with undoing what their parents and grandparents have done.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    George W. Noblit

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: School Desegregation

  • Book Subtitle: Oral Histories toward Understanding the Effects of White Domination

  • Editors: George W. Noblit

  • Series Title: Foundations and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-965-4

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-965-4Published: 17 March 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 226

  • Topics: Education, general

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