{"product_id":"higher-education-and-the-civil-rights-movement-white-supremacy-black-southerners-and-college-campuses-paperback","title":"Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Wallenstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first comprehensive study of the process of desegregation as it unfolded during the twentieth century at the flagship universities and white land-grant institutions of the south.\"--Amy Thompson McCandless, College of Charleston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Broadens the discussion of the civil rights movement to include academic spaces as sites of struggle and contributes to southern history by providing unique accounts of black agency during the dismantling of the Jim Crow South.\"-- Stephanie Y. Evans, University of Florida\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNowhere else can one read about how \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e transformed higher education on campus after campus, in state after state, across the South. And no other book details the continuing struggle to change each school in the years that followed the enrollment of the first African American students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutions of higher education long functioned as bastions of white supremacy and black exclusion. Against the walls of Jim Crow and the powers of state laws, black southerners--prospective students, their parents and families, their lawyers and their communities--struggled to gain access and equity. \u003ci\u003eHigher Education and the Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e examines an understudied aspect of racial history, revealing desegregation to be a process, not an event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Wallenstein is professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 318\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.2 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782309642528,"sku":"9780813034447","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/82ceba9d0b3b1a076b5e75bcae653d28.webp?v=1780567697","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/higher-education-and-the-civil-rights-movement-white-supremacy-black-southerners-and-college-campuses-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}