Point of Reckoning : The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University / Theodore D. Segal.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781478012955
- Duke University
- Duke University -- Students
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Students
- Racism in higher education
- Racism
- Race relations
- African American college students
- Racism -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
- Racism in higher education -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
- African American college students -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
- North Carolina -- Durham
- Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
A Plantation System: Desegregation -- Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters -- Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space -- We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House -- Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil -- Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations -- Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning -- No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation -- We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath -- Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.
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"Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face."-- Provided by publisher.
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