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Greater than Equal - African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 (Paperback)
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Greater than Equal - African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 (Paperback)
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During the half century preceding widespread school integration,
black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal
educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing
on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice
to students, parents, teachers, school officials, and civic leaders
to reconstruct this high-stakes drama. She explores how African
Americans pressed for equality in curricula, higher education,
teacher salaries, and school facilities; how white officials
co-opted equalization as a means of forestalling integration; and,
finally, how black activism for equality evolved into a fight for
something "greater than equal--integrated schools that served as
models of civic inclusion. These battles persisted into the Brown
era, mobilized black communities, narrowed material disparities,
fostered black school pride, and profoundly shaped the eventual
movement for desegregation. Thuesen emphasizes that the remarkable
achievements of this activism should not obscure the inherent
limitations of a fight for equality in a segregated society. In
fact, these unresolved struggles are emblematic of fault lines that
developed across the South, and serve as an urgent reminder of the
inextricable connections between educational equality, racial
diversity, and the achievement of first-class citizenship.
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