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The provocative story of the Brown decision's impact on one Tidewater county draws into question some of integration's cherished precepts. The Supreme Court's 1954 edict took 14 years to wind its way to Hyde County, when in 1968 the educrats at HEW brought pressure on local officials to integrate schools. As they had done elsewhere, powerful whites tried to accomplish the job and still maintain power: they proposed to close two black schools and to send the pupils to existing white ones. Both they and HEW made no provision for the constituency of fondness and pride the two schools had built up over generations, sentiments that rose into a grassroots boycott of the integration plan in 1968 and 1969. In his originally researched investigation, Cecelski soberly narrates the course of the protest's ultimate success in preserving the two black schools. But this paradoxical case of a civil rights protest to maintain a type of segregation was an exception, Cecelski says; in the rest of the South, integration eradicated black schools. Such original scholarship when "school choice" is a current issue bears serious contemplation. Gilbert Taylor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A superb piece of scholarship. . . . Must reading for any student wishing to fully understand the legacy of the Brown case.
The provocative story of the Brown decision's impact on one Tidewater county draws into question some of integration's cherished precepts. The Supreme Court's 1954 edict took 14 years to wind its way to Hyde County, when in 1968 the educrats at HEW brought pressure on local officials to integrate schools. As they had done elsewhere, powerful whites tried to accomplish the job and still maintain power: they proposed to close two black schools and to send the pupils to existing white ones. Both they and HEW made no provision for the constituency of fondness and pride the two schools had built up over generations, sentiments that rose into a grassroots boycott of the integration plan in 1968 and 1969. In his originally researched investigation, Cecelski soberly narrates the course of the protest's ultimate success in preserving the two black schools. But this paradoxical case of a civil rights protest to maintain a type of segregation was an exception, Cecelski says; in the rest of the South, integration eradicated black schools. Such original scholarship when "school choice" is a current issue bears serious contemplation. Gilbert Taylor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A superb piece of scholarship. . . . Must reading for any student wishing to fully understand the legacy of the Brown case.
Journal of Southern History
Such original scholarship when 'school choice' is a current issue bears serious contemplation.
Booklist
Cecelski makes his case with clarity and fairness.
Progressive
A well-written analysis of a neglected feature of the civil rights movement in the South.
North Carolina Historical Review
Along Freedom Road is a book that should be read by anyone interested in civil rights, schooling, and southern history.
History of Education Quarterly
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On a late summer day in 1965, Vanderbilt Johnson was at a filling station west of Engelhard when for the first time in his life he saw a school bus carrying black and white children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
school boycott leaders, school boycotters, white school leaders, black school closings, local school leaders, new desegregation plan, biracial schools, boycott activists, school desegregation plan, black schooling, black expectations, black educators, school hoard, local school officials, black schools, local black leaders, black principals, black citizens, bond referendum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hyde County, North Carolina, Swan Quarter, Mattamuskeet School, Hyde Counts, Peay School, Golden Frinks, Davis School, Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, Sheriff Cahoon, Department of Public Instruction, Fred Simons, Office of Civil Rights, Allen Bucklew, Beaufort County, Good Neighbor Council, African American, Governor Moore, Governor Scott, Marie Hill, Milton Fitch, Peas School, Rosa O'Neal New!
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On a late summer day in 1965, Vanderbilt Johnson was at a filling station west of Engelhard when for the first time in his life he saw a school bus carrying black and white children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
school boycott leaders, school boycotters, white school leaders, black school closings, local school leaders, new desegregation plan, biracial schools, boycott activists, school desegregation plan, black schooling, black expectations, black educators, school hoard, local school officials, black schools, local black leaders, black principals, black citizens, bond referendum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hyde County, North Carolina, Swan Quarter, Mattamuskeet School, Hyde Counts, Peay School, Golden Frinks, Davis School, Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, Sheriff Cahoon, Department of Public Instruction, Fred Simons, Office of Civil Rights, Allen Bucklew, Beaufort County, Good Neighbor Council, African American, Governor Moore, Governor Scott, Marie Hill, Milton Fitch, Peas School, Rosa O'Neal New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Reconstruction of Southern Education: Schools and the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Gary Orfield on 6 pages
- North Carolina (United States) by Julie Murray on 6 pages
- The Civil Rights Movement (Magill's Choice) by Salem Press on 5 pages
- Plural but equal: A critical study of Blacks and minorities and America's plural society by Harold Cruse on 4 pages
- Southern Exposure by Billie Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series) by Ted Ownby in Back Matter
- Transitions in American Education : A Social History of Teaching (Studies in the History of Education) by Donal Parkerson in Back Matter
- Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson in Back Matter
- Transitions in American Education : A Social History of Teaching (Studies in the History of Education) by Donal Parkerson in Back Matter
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