No Prejudice Here: Racism, Resistance, and the Struggle for Equality in the American West, 1947-1994 - Couverture rigide

Cherland, Summer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 168053193X ISBN 13 : 9781680531930

Editeur : Academica Press, 2020

Synopsis

No Prejudice Here chronicles a heretofore untold story of civil rights in modern America. In embracing the Western urban experience, it relates the struggle for civil rights and school desegregation in Denver, Colorado. It chronicles early legislative and political trends to promote Denver as a racially tolerant city, which encouraged African-Americans to move to the urban center for opportunities unique to communities in the postwar American West while nonetheless trying to maintain segregation by limiting educational and employment opportunities for minorities. Dynamic historian Summer Cherland recounts this tension over six decades, with specific attention to the role of community control efforts, legislative and political strategies, and the importance of youth activism. Her insightful study provides an overview of the seminar 1974 Supreme Court case Keyes v. Denver Public Schools No. 1 and traces the community's reaction to court decisions until the city was released from federal oversight twenty years later. Cherland's book proves that civil rights activism, and the need for it, lasted well beyond the years that typically define the civil rights movement, and illustrates for our contemporary consideration the longstanding struggle in urban communities for justice and equality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Summer Cherland, History Faculty, South Mountain Community College

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academica Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 168053193X
• ISBN 13: 9781680531930
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible