Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Built. The roots -- A compromise -- The fall of integrated education -- Part II: Defended. The tragedy of Lloyd Gaines -- A new guinea pig -- "Segregated as conditions allow" -- Part III: Failed. This whole facade -- Thirteen years a remedy, thirty years a fight, two centuries a struggle -- What hath we wrought.
Summary:
Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
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