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Author Segal, Theodore D., 1955- author.

Title Point of reckoning : the fight for racial justice at Duke University / Theodore D. Segal
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 366 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
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Subject Duke University -- Students
SUBJECT Duke University fast
Subject African American college students -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
Racism in higher education -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
Racial justice in education -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Racial justice in education
African American college students
Race relations
Racism
Racism in higher education
Students
SUBJECT Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject North Carolina -- Durham
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020021181
ISBN 9781478091790
1478091797
9781478012955
1478012951