Point of Reckoning - The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University (Paperback)

On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration building. That evening, police were summoned to clear the building, firing tear gas at students in the melee that followed. When it was over, nearly twenty people were taken to the hospital, and many more injured. In Point of Reckoning, Theodore D. Segal narrates the contested fight for racial justice at Duke from the enrollment of the first Black undergraduates in 1963 to the events that led to the Allen Building takeover and beyond. Segal shows that Duke's first Black students quickly recognized that the university was unwilling to acknowledge their presence or fully address its segregationist past. By exposing the tortuous dynamics that played out as racial progress stalled at Duke, Segal tells both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country have faced and continue to face.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Theodore D. Segal
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1142-2
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-1142-4
Barcode:	9781478011422

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