Paradoxes of Desegregation African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972

Name: Paradoxes of Desegregation African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972
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ISBN: 9781570036323

ISBN-10: 1570036322

ISBN-13: 9781570036323

Edition: 2006

Authors: R. Scott Baker

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In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still know surprisingly little about the new system of public education that replaced segregated caste arrangements in the South. Much has been written about the most dramatic battles for black access to southern schools, but Baker examines the rationale and durable evasions that authorities institutionalized in response to African American demands for educational opportunity. A case study of southern evasions, Paradoxes of Desegregation documents the new educational order that grew out of decades of conflict between African American civil rights…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.30" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Mamie Fields and the School at Society Corner, 1926-1938



"The First Signs of a Mass Movement," 1938-1945



Testing Equality, 1936-1946



The Veil in Higher Education, 1943-1953



Black Schooling and the Briggs Decision, 1945-1954



Contesting Brown, 1954-1960



Evading Brown, 1954-1960



Disorder and Desegregation, 1960-1963



A New Educational Order, 1963-1972


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author