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Edition
First edition.
Description
259 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
Contents
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.