Point of Reckoning : The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University /
"Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continu...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- A Plantation System: Desegregation
- Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters
- Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space
- We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House
- Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil
- Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations
- Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning
- No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation
- We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath
- Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.