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The Campus Color Line - College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Hardcover)
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The Campus Color Line - College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Hardcover)
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"A stunning and ambitious origins story."-Ibram X. Kendi, National
Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author The
remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle
for racial equality Some of America's most pressing civil rights
issues-desegregation, equal educational and employment
opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech-have been
closely intertwined with higher education institutions. Although it
is commonly known that college students and other activists, as
well as politicians, actively participated in the fight for and
against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth
century, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the
roles that the nation's college presidents played in the debates
concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range
of colleges and universities across the United States, The Campus
Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents
in the struggle for racial parity. Focusing on the period between
1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a
time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently,
initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and
outside of the educational sphere. With courage and hope, as well
as malice and cruelty, college presidents positioned
themselves-sometimes precariously-amid conflicting interests and
demands. Black college presidents challenged racist policies as
their students demonstrated in the streets against segregation,
while presidents of major universities lobbied for urban renewal
programs that displaced Black communities near campus. Some
presidents amended campus speech practices to accommodate white
supremacist speakers, even as other academic leaders developed the
nation's first affirmative action programs in higher education. The
Campus Color Line illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders'
actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black
freedom and racial equity in education and beyond.
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