Keep on Keeping on: The Naacp and the Implementation of Brown V. Board of Education in Virginia - Couverture rigide

Daugherity, Brian J.

 
9780813938899: Keep on Keeping on: The Naacp and the Implementation of Brown V. Board of Education in Virginia
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ISBN 10 : 0813938899 ISBN 13 : 9780813938899
Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2016

Synopsis

Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South's largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state's political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state's black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr.

Keep On Keeping On is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of African Americans' efforts to obtain racial equality in Virginia in the later twentieth century. Brian J. Daugherity considers the relationship between the various levels of the NAACP, the ideas and actions of other African American organizations, and the stances of Virginia's political leaders, white liberals and moderates, and segregationists. In doing so, the author provides a better understanding of the connections between the actions of white political leaders and those of black civil rights activists working to bring about school desegregation. Blending social, legal, southern, and African American history, this book sheds new light on the civil rights movement and white resistance to civil rights in Virginia and the South.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian J. Daugherity, Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, is coeditor with Charles C. Bolton of With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education.

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Éditeur
University of Virginia Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813938899
ISBN 13 
9780813938899
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
248
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Personne responsable
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