An African American dilemma: a history of school integration and civil rights in the North

Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet school integration was not the only-or even always the dominant-civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans also fought for separate, Black-controlled...

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Main Author: Burkholder, Zoë ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2021
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet school integration was not the only-or even always the dominant-civil rights strategy. At times, African Americans also fought for separate, Black-controlled schools dedicated to racial uplift, community empowerment, and self-determination. An African American Dilemma offers a social history of debates over school integration within northern Black communities from the 1840s to the present. This broad geographical and temporal focus reveals that northern Black educational activists vacillated between a preference for either school integration or separation during specific eras. However, there was never a consensus, so the dissent, debate, and counter-narratives that pushed families to consider a fuller range of educational reforms are also highlighted here
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (312 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190605162
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190605131.001.0001

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