The Campus Color Line : : College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom / / Eddie R. Cole.
The remarkable history of how college presidents, through their roles at American colleges and universities, shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America’s most pressing civil rights issues—desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free spee...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. “This Is a Good Movement”: Black Presidents and the Dismantling of Segregation
- 2. “We Simply Cannot Operate in Slums”: The University and Housing Discrimination
- 3. “Segregation Is Immoral”: Race, University Systems, and Bureaucratic Resistance
- 4. “The University Has Become a Pawn”: The Fight for Autonomy at a Public University
- 5. “The More Violent and Adamant”: Anticipating and Preventing White Resistance
- 6. “The Northern Outpost of Southern Culture”: Free Speech and Civil Rights
- 7. “A Truly Influential Role”: College Presidents Develop Affirmative Action Programs
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- A Note on the Type