San Antonio College Library

"Present[ing] a compelling, tightly woven story of the challenges faced by HBCUs, [this work] features administrators, celebrities, and alumni whose lives are intricately tied to the fate of these institutions."--Jacket.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, federal judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School to desegregate with "all deliberate speed" in the fall of 1956. That same year, when the new school year began, 12 African-American children went to Clinton High School, setting in motion events that nobody could have predicted. Though the response to this integration was initially positive, it all changed when white...

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational system that would support...

"In this first full-length history of the university's desegregation, Dwonna Goldstone examines how, for decades, administrators only gradually undid the most visible signs of formal segregation while preventing true racial integration." "Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended...