TY - BOOK AU - Segal,Theodore D. ED - Project Muse. TI - Point of Reckoning : : The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University / SN - 9781478012955 PY - 2021/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Duke University KW - fast KW - Students KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Racism in higher education KW - Racism KW - Race relations KW - African American college students KW - North Carolina KW - Durham KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Durham (N.C.) KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - "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."-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/81292/ ER -