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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Map of Alachua County, Florida with School Sites, 1965-1973 -- Map of Gainesville, Florida with School Sites, 1965-1973 -- Preface -- Tiny Talbot, John Dukes -- Prologue: Gainesville in the Sixties -- Florida's Segregated Past -- Why Were Public Schools Desegregated? -- Alachua County's First Steps to School Desegregation -- Desegregation Under Freedom of Choice -- The Judges' Turn I: Beginning of the End of Freedom of Choice -- Toward a Unitary System: School Board Responds to Financial and Accreditation Pressures |
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Lincoln High School: We Wanted Them to Make it Equal -- The Judges' Turn II: The Supreme Court Orders Alachua County to End its Dual School System in February 1970 -- Last Roundup for The Fighting Red Terriers -- The Fruitbasket Solution -- Into the Fire -- Searching for Answers -- The Judges' Turn III: Lincoln High School's Day in Court -- Reaction, Rebuilding -- Racial Balancing: The Ideal Meets Reality -- New Leaders, New Challenges -- The Teachers -- The Students -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author |
| Summary |
This book tells of the challenges faced by white and black school administrators, teachers, parents, and students as Alachua County, Florida, moved from segregated schools to a single, unitary school system. After Brown v. Board of Education, the South's separate white and black schools continued under lower court opinions, provided black students could choose to go to white schools. Not until 1968 did the NAACP Legal Defense Fund convince the Supreme Court to end dual school systems. Almost fifty years later, African Americans in Alachua County remain divided over that outcome. A unique study including extensive interviews, We Can Do It asks important questions, among them: How did both races, without precedent, work together to create desegregated schools' What conflicts arose, and how were they resolved (or not)' How was the community affected' And at a time when resegregation and persistent white-black achievement gaps continue to challenge public schools, what lessons can we learn from the generation that desegregated our schools' |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed August 27, 2018) |
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Education.
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EDUCATION -- History.
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EDUCATION / Administration / General
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EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
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Education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781948122177 |
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1948122170 |
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