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Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging
from the era of urban crisis - desegregation, white flight,
political conflict, and economic decline. The product of the merger
of the Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional
Institute combined into one, state-mandated institution, the two
were able to embrace their mission and work together productively.
In Fulfilling the Promise, John Kneebone and Eugene Trani tell the
intriguing story of VCU and the context in which the university was
forged and eventually thrived. Although VCU's history is
necessarily unique, Kneebone and Trani show how the issues shaping
it are common to many urban institutions, from engaging with
two-party politics in Virginia and African American political
leadership in Richmond, to fraught neighborhood relations, the
complexities of providing public health care at an academic health
center, and an increasingly diverse student body. As a result,
Fulfilling the Promise offers far more than a stale institutional
saga. Rather, this definitive history of one urban state university
illuminates the past and future of American public higher education
in the post-1960s era.
Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists
played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and
racism. John Kneebone presents a richly detailed intellectual
history of southern racial liberalism between World War I and World
War II by examining the works of five leading southern journalists
-- Gerald W. Johnson, Baltimore Evening Sun; George Fort Milton,
Chattanooga News; Virginius Dabney, Richmond Times-Dispatch;
Hodding Carter, Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times; and Ralph
McGill, Atlanta Constitution. The South's leading liberal
journalists came from varied backgrounds and lived in different
regions of the South, but all had one characteristic in common: as
public advocates of southern liberalism, each spoke as a southerner
with deep roots in the southern past. Yet their editorials were not
intended solely for local audiences; they wrote essays for national
and regional journals of opinion as well, and each of these men
published important books on the South and its history. Through
their writings, they gained reputations throughout the country as
articulate spokesmen for southern liberalism. Their essays,
editorials, books, and letters provide rich and abundant sources
for studying the changing patterns of southern liberal thought in
the critical years from the 1920s to the 1940s. Moreover, these
journalists were members of southern liberal organizations -- Will
W. Alexander's Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Southern
Commission on the Study of Lynching, the Southern Policy Committee,
the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, and the Southern
Regional Council -- and so they helped devise the reform programs
that they in turn publicized. While they believed that social and
economic change in the modern South required reform of race
relations, the journalists felt that these reforms could be
accommodated within the framework of racial segregation. The
protests of blacks against segregation during World War II
challenged that way of thinking and created a crisis for southern
liberals. Kneebone analyzes this crisis and the disconnection
between the southern liberalism of the 1920s and 1930s and the
Civil Rights movement. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press
Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make
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previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered
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