Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses (Southern Dissent)

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. Dsu Title Iii 2002-2012. Black Southerners And Nonblack Universities : The Process Of Desegregating Southern Higher Education, 1935-1965 / Peter Wallenstein -- Four Who Would : Constantine V. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) And The Desegregation Of Louisiana's State Colleges / Michael G. Wade -- The Long Journey From Lagrange To Atlanta : Horace Ward And The Desegregation Of The University Of Georgia / Robert A. Pratt -- Black Colleges And Civil Rights : Organizing And Mobilizing In Jackson, Mississippi / Joy Ann Williamson -- Prying The Door Farther Open : A Memoir Of Black Student Protest At The University Of Maryland At College Park, 1966-1970 / Hayward Woody Farrar -- Hold That (color) Line! : Black Exclusion And Southeastern Conference Football / Charles H. Martin -- African American Women Pioneers In Desegregating Higher Education / Marcia G. Synnott. Edited By Peter Wallenstein ; Foreword By Stanley Harrold And Randall M. Miller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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.