Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865–1954

ISBN-13: 9780521845649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 346 str.

Virginia) Davison Douglas (College of William and Mary

Opis

Most observers have assumed that school segregation in the United States was exclusively a southern phenomenon. In fact, many northern communities, until recently, engaged in explicit "southern style" school segregation whereby black children were assigned to "colored" schools and white children to white schools. Davison Douglas examines why so many northern communities did engage in school segregation (in violation of state laws that prohibited such segregation) and how northern blacks challenged this illegal activity. He analyzes the competing visions of black empowerment in the northern black community as reflected in the debate over school integration.

Recenzje

'This is an excellently researched and detailed study of northern school desegregation campaigns over a very broad period of history.' History

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The struggle for black education in the antebellum north; 3. Legislative reform: banning school segregation, 1865–90; 4. The spread of northern school segregation, 1890–1940; 5. Responding to the spread of northern school segregation: conflict within the black community, 1900–40; 6. The democratic imperative: the campaign against northern school segregation, 1940–54; 7. Conclusion.