Color and Character : West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality /

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"West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations of the growing African American population of Charlotte, North Carolina. In the 1970s, when Charlotte began court-ordered busing, black and white families made West Charlotte the celebrated flagship of the most...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grundy, Pamela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) > History.
School integration.
Race relations.
Educational equalization.
African Americans > Education (Secondary)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
EDUCATION > Secondary.
Desegregation en education > Caroline du Nord > Charlotte > Histoire.
Democratisation de l'enseignement > Caroline du Nord > Charlotte > Histoire.
African Americans > Education (Secondary) > North Carolina > Charlotte.
School integration > North Carolina > Charlotte > History.
Educational equalization > North Carolina > Charlotte > History.
North Carolina > Charlotte.
Charlotte (N.C.) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An African American school
  • Civil rights
  • Busing
  • Building an integrated school
  • Pulling apart
  • Resegregation
  • Separate and unequal
  • Final thoughts: past, present, and future.

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