A Touch of Greatness: A History of Tennessee State University - Couverture rigide

Lovett, Bobby L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 088146435X ISBN 13 : 9780881464351

Editeur : Mercer University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The Tennessee General Assembly authorised “Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School for Negroes” in 1909 and opened with 250 students and three buildings in 1912. Depending heavily on donations from local Negroes and grants from philanthropic and federal agencies, the school graduated its first class in 1924, built collegiate-level facilities between 1927 and 1934, and achieved university designation in 1951. Tennessee A&I felt the oppression of a Jim Crow (de jure racial segregation) society until lawsuits forced the state to respect the “separate but equal” US Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). After the civil rights movement and several lawsuits, the federal court merged the UT-Nashville campus into Tennessee State University in 1979. TSU has outgrown its Jim Crow legacy, and thrives as a racially diversified, comprehensive urban land-grant research doctoral-level institution with nearly 9,000 students.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bobby L. Lovett was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his public school education in Memphis, and BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Arkansas. He has taught in the Memphis Public Schools, Eureka College (IL) and served as full professor of History at Tennessee State University from 1973 until his retirement in 2011. Lovett has published several books, contributed chapters to other books, and has published book reviews and articles in scholarly journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mercer University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 088146435X
• ISBN 13: 9780881464351
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 338
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