Title Steady and measured : Benner C. Turner, a Black college president in the Jim Crow South / Travis D. Boyce

Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 163 pages) : illustrations Contents "... A man of dignity, a man of integrity, and a man of courage" -- An outsider within: formative years and early education -- Completing his father's work: Turner's early law career -- Pessimistic pragmatist: Turner's presidency in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education -- Academic leadership during campus turmoil -- Leaving and not looking back: life and legacy after South Carolina State College Summary "Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State College during the civil rights era. Travis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's life and career in the context of the contrary pressures of white and Black authority. Borrowing an expression from Michelle Obama's remarks to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Boyce casts Turner, long-serving president of South Carolina State University, as a steady and measured leader who preserved the limited resources his historically Black institution possessed in the face of often hostile social, political, and economic power structures. Previous accounts of Turner and his SC State presidency portray him as unwilling to criticize the state's white power structure and unable to contend with their open resistance to civil rights. Boyce argues that the modern view of Turner flattens a complex terrain, often relying selectively on hostile sources, underplaying the political constraints on presidents of publicly funded HBCUs in the South. Considering Turner in a richer context, with a deep awareness of Turner's early life formative influences, Boyce provides a more complete critical examination of his leadership in trying times"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2023) Subject Turner, Benner C., 1905-1988. South Carolina State College -- Presidents -- Biography SUBJECT South Carolina State College fast Subject African American college presidents -- South Carolina -- Biography Historically Black colleges and universities -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / African American & Black. EDUCATION / History. African American college presidents African Americans -- Civil rights Historically Black colleges and universities Presidents Race relations SUBJECT South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject South Carolina Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2023027626 ISBN 1643364456 9781643364452

Other Titles Benner C. Turner, a Black college president in the Jim Crow South

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