Point of reckoning : the fight for racial justice at Duke University /

Segal, Theodore D., 1955-

Point of reckoning : the fight for racial justice at Duke University / Theodore D. Segal. - 1 online resource (xvii, 366 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Plantation System: Desegregation -- Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters -- Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space -- We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House -- Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil -- Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations -- Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning -- No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation -- We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath -- Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.

"Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face."--

9781478091790 1478091797 9781478012955 1478012951

22573/ctv1ct5cwp JSTOR

2020021182


Duke University--Students.
Duke University


1900-1999


African American college students--History--North Carolina--Durham--20th century.
Racism in higher education--History--North Carolina--Durham--20th century.
Racism--History--North Carolina--Durham--20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
African American college students
Race relations
Racism
Racism in higher education
Students


Durham (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
North Carolina--Durham


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History

LC2803.D87 / S443 2021

378.1/9829960730756563