Preface; Chapter 1 Education in the Forming of the American South, John Hardin Best; Chapter 2 The School That Built a Town: Public Education and the Southern Social Landscape, 1880–1930, William A. Link; Chapter 3 Nation-Building for a Venerable South: Moral and Practical Uplift in the New Agricultural Education, 1900–1920, John M. Heffron; Chapter 4 Reconsidering the Washington-Du Bois Debate: Two Black Colleges in 1910–1911, Linda R. Buchanan, Philo A. Hutcheson; Chapter 5 The Southern Teacher in the Twentieth Century: Race Mattered, Clinton B. Allison; Chapter 6 “The Witness We Tried to Make”: Julia F. Allen and Racial Justice at Berea College, 1935–1974, Carolyn Terry Bashaw; Chapter 7 An American Dilemma: Teacher Testing and School Desegregation in the South, Scott Baker; Chapter 8 Liberalism at the Crossroads: Jimmy Carter, Joseph Califano, and Public College Desegregation, Wayne J. Urban; Chapter 9 Stasis or Change: Recent Histories of Twentieth-Century Southern Education, Wayne J. Urban;