Reading, Writing, & Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools - Couverture rigide

Douglas, Davison M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807822167 ISBN 13 : 9780807822166

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Synopsis

Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation. In charting the path of racial change, Douglas considers the relative efficacy of the black community's use of public demonstrations and litigation to force desegregation. He also evaluates the role of the city's white business community, which was concerned with preserving Charlotte's image as a racially moderate city, in facilitating racial gains.

Charlotte's white leadership, anxious to avoid economically damaging racial conflict, engaged in early but decidedly token integration in the late 1950s and early 1960s in response to the black community's public protest and litigation efforts. The insistence in the late 1960s on widespread busing, however, posed integration demands of an entirely different magnitude. As Douglas shows, the city's white leaders initially resisted the call for busing but eventually relented because they recognized the importance of a stable school system to the city's continued prosperity.
|Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Davison M. Douglas is associate professor of law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He is editor of The Development of School Busing as a Desegregation Remedy and The Public Debate over Busing and Attempts to Restrict Its Use.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807822167
• ISBN 13: 9780807822166
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 374
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