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Ground Crew - The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State (Paperback)
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Ground Crew - The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State (Paperback)
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The Hunt v. Arnold decision of 1959 against the state of Georgia
marked a watershed moment in the fight against segregation in
higher education. Though the Supreme Court declared school
segregation illegal in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
decision, Georgia was among many southern states that refused to
abide by the Court's ruling. In 1956, the Georgia State College of
Business (now Georgia State University) denied admission to nine
black applicants. Three of those applicants-lead plaintiff Barbara
Pace Hunt, Iris Mae Welch, and Myra Elliott Dinsmore-coordinated
with the NAACP and local activists to win a groundbreaking lawsuit
against the state of Georgia and its Board of Regents. Hunt v.
Arnold became the NAACP's first federal court victory against
segregated education in Georgia, establishing key legal precedents
for subsequent litigation against racial discrimination in
education. With Ground Crew, Maurice Daniels provides an intimate
and detailed account that chronicles a compelling story. Following
their litigation against the all-white institution, Hunt, Welch,
and Dinsmore confronted hardened resistance and attacks from white
supremacists, including inflammatory statements by high-profile
political leaders and personal threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Using
archival sources, court records, collections of personal papers,
news coverage, and oral histories of that era, Daniels explores in
depth the plaintiffs' courageous fight to end segregation at
Georgia State. In lucid prose, Daniels sheds light on the vital
role of community-based activists, local attorneys, and the NAACP
in this forgotten but critical piece of the struggle to end
segregation.
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