Point of reckoning : the fight for racial justice at Duke University / Theodore D. Segal.
Material type: TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 366 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781478091790
- 1478091797
- 9781478012955
- 1478012951
- Duke University -- Students
- Duke University
- African American college students -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
- Racism in higher education -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
- Racism -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
- Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- African American college students
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism in higher education
- Students
- North Carolina -- Durham
- 1900-1999
- 378.1/9829960730756563 23
- LC2803.D87 S443 2021
Description based on print version record.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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