Women Activists In The Fight For Georgia School Desegregation 1958 1961

Author : Rebecca H. Dartt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476600048

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Women Activists in the Fight for Georgia School Desegregation, 1958-1961 by Rebecca H. Dartt Pdf

On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Georgia General Assembly enacted a series of massive anti-desegregation laws to stand in opposition to the federal mandate. Governor Ernest Vandiver was elected with an overwhelming majority after promising to close every school if even "one Negro" entered a white classroom. While the fight for segregated schools was certainly strong, a small group of women in Atlanta's white community played a radical role in bringing peaceful desegregation to the Georgia school system. This book tells the story of HOPE (Help Our Public Education), beginning with a small neighborhood coffee chat then growing through mail and meeting campaigns across the state. The women of HOPE changed the school crisis from politics-as-usual to public controversy. Based on factual material found in library special collections, books, newspapers, transcripts, symposiums, and several interviews, this book honors and tells the story of a small group of courageous, hard-working women credited with creating a public climate in which peaceful desegregation was possible.

Author : Glen Anthony Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793653697

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Social Justice and Liberation Struggles by Glen Anthony Harris Pdf

Alexander McAllister Rivera Jr. was a prolific photojournalist and a foremost public relations specialist. Well-known for his long association with North Carolina Central University, his livelihood and professional career extended well beyond Durham, North Carolina. Rivera Jr. not only created a body of work that preserved critical aspects of African American and American history on the local, state, national, and international levels, he also personified the philosophies of confidentiality and anonymity essential in the field of public relations to maneuver and operate in the complex environment of national and state politics. His career allowed him to witness, report, and participate to some degree on key historical events in the early-to-mid twentieth century, provided him connections to black communities across the country, and access to some of most powerful and influential people in the United States. He had unparalleled breath concerning the emerging struggle for equality. This work will introduce Rivera Jr. - whose photojournalistic and public relations work has been ignored or underappreciated - to the historical record.

Author : Rebecca T. Klein
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477777442

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School Integration by Rebecca T. Klein Pdf

The landmark Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case of 1954 was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Striking down the toxic “separate but equal” doctrine that had long been upheld in the United States and calling for the desegregation of schools, the decision was a major step towards racial equality in the country. Readers will learn about this historic case, from its prelude to its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the present day. They will also be introduced to the individual actors courageous enough to stand up to racial injustice in the school system. • Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board decision, this volume reminds us of both how far we’ve come and the barriers that still need to be overcome with respect to education equality.

Author : Ann W. Yearwood
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781973623908

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Fifteen Red Roses by Ann W. Yearwood Pdf

In the fall of 1962, Eve Windham begins her high school teaching career with enthusiasmIll be the best teacher they ever had! By the spring of 1969, the power of the civil rights movement reaches Janus County, resulting in a court order to integrate the public schools the next fall. Eve must face the challenge of possible violence with courage. Persevere with her to create new grading systems and group activities for her mixed classes. Ride with her to transport contestants and judge debate competitions. Sit with her in long, continuous meetings for the boys and girls. Laugh and cry with her in the interactions with family, colleagues, and administrators. Pray with her as she seeks to interpret for her teenagers war and death in Vietnam, bitter disappointment, baffling college standards and demonstrations, and a shifting culture. Then you may rightly judge the significance of Fifteen Red Roses, one for each year she taught us.

Author : Helen Laville
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319496948

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Organized White Women and the Challenge of Racial Integration, 1945-1965 by Helen Laville Pdf

This monograph asserts that the troubled history of segregation within American women’s associations created a legacy of racial exclusivity and privilege. While acknowledging the progressive potential of women’s associations and the extent to which they created a legitimate outlet for American women’s public activism, it explores how and why such organizations failed to aid in issues of integration. Rather than being a historical accident, or a pragmatic response to circumstance, this monograph demonstrates that white exclusivity and privilege was crucial to the authority and influence of these associations. Organized White Women and the Challenge of Race Relations examines the translation of what seemed on the surface to be relatively simple demands for racial integration into a far more significant and all-encompassing confrontation with the frequently hidden structures and practices of white privilege.

Author : Anne Stefani
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063119

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Unlikely Dissenters by Anne Stefani Pdf

"An eye-opening account of southern white women who worked to challenge racial segregation. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "Brings to life a small but important group of women who worked hard to change the South. . . . It will help to more fully explicate the motivation and experiences of women willing to challenge expected behavior in order to bring racial justice to the region and the nation."--American Historical Review "Stefani does a stellar job of chronicling southern white women?s confrontation with segregation and white supremacy. . . . A welcome contribution to the growing historiography of little-known civil rights heroines."--North Carolina Historical Review "An intriguing narrative of women whose lives were dramatically shaped by their work in such actions as the Little Rock Central High School desegregation campaign in 1957, the Albany movement in 1961, and Freedom Summer in 1964."--Journal of American History "Extensively researched. . . . A valuable resource for anyone studying white southern women, women?s civil rights activism, and women?s activism across race, religion, and time."--Journal of Southern History "Stefani redefines the proverbial 'southern lady' with a close look at over fifty white, anti-racist women. Concentrating on traits that linked these women across two generations, Unlikely Dissenters provides the first comprehensive study of how these southern women both employed and destroyed a stereotype."--Gail S. Murray, editor of Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege "Presents a sophisticated and well-supported argument that women such as Lillian Smith, Virginia Durr, and Anne Braden challenged white supremacy at its core while knowing that they would be regarded as traitors to their race, region, and gender in doing so."--Peter B. Levy, author of Civil War on Race Street Between 1920 and 1970, a small but significant number of white women confronted the segregationist system in the American South, ultimately contributing to its demise. For many of these reformers, the struggle for African American civil rights was akin to their own complex process of personal emancipation from gender norms. As part of the white community, they wrestled with guilt as members of the "oppressor" group. Yet as women in a patriarchal society, they were also "victims." This paradoxical double identity enabled them to develop a special brand of activism that combatted white supremacy while emancipating them from white patriarchy. Using the 1954 Brown decision as a pivot, Anne Stefani examines and compares two generations of white women who spoke out against Jim Crow while remaining deeply attached to their native South. She demonstrates how their unique grassroots community-oriented activism functioned within--and even used to its advantage--southern standards of respectability.

Author : Betty Wood,Kathleen Ann Clark,Ann Short Chirhart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820337852

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Georgia Women by Betty Wood,Kathleen Ann Clark,Ann Short Chirhart Pdf

The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2744 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722686

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Mark K. Bauman,Berkley Kalin
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081730892X

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The Quiet Voices by Mark K. Bauman,Berkley Kalin Pdf

Elucidating the controversial area of Black-Jewish relations, 18 contributors analyze the roles played by Southern rabbis in the genesis, heyday, and aftermath of the Black civil rights era. Case studies explore the personal and social forces that shaped about 100 religious leaders' responses to injustice toward another minority group: from fiery public denouncement to quiet behind the scenes support. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kathryn L. Nasstrom
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501729065

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Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool by Kathryn L. Nasstrom Pdf

Frances Freeborn Pauley, a white woman who grew up in the segregated South, has devoted most of her ninety-four years to the battle against discrimination and prejudice. A champion of civil rights and racial justice and an advocate for the poor and disenfranchised, Pauley's tenacity as an activist and the length of her career are remarkable. She is also a consummate storyteller; for decades, she has shared her words with activists, students, and scholars who have found their way to her door. Kathryn L. Nasstrom uses rich oral history material, recorded by herself and others, to present Frances Pauley in her own words. Pauley's life has encompassed much of the last century of extraordinary social change in the South, a life touching and touched by famous figures from southern politics and the civil rights movement. Highlights of Pauley's career in the public eye include a friendship with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, encounters with several of Georgia's civil-rights-era governors, and a meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt. A skillful political organizer, Pauley was involved in decades of community mobilization, repeated efforts to educate politicians and the public about the origins and nature of poverty, and lobbying for unpopular causes. "People are born into a certain way of living," she says. "It takes a jolt to get out of it. It doesn't really mean that they're all that mean and bad, but it takes a jolt to make them see that maybe they could make a change." In a deft blend of biography and memoir, Nasstrom explains Pauley's historical significance and places her story in the context of developments in Georgia politics and the civil rights movement. Even as it contributes to the political history of Georgia and the South, affording insight of unusual depth on familiar issues and events, the book preserves one woman's story in the still largely undocumented history of southern women's social and political activism in the twentieth century. Pauley's experiences serve as a window on the lives of all those women and men who, town by town and state by state, made momentous change not only possible but also inescapable.

Author : Sara Mitchell Parsons
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817355586

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From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights by Sara Mitchell Parsons Pdf

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children. As a young woman, she followed the conventional path expected of her, becoming the dutiful wife of a conservative husband, going to the country club, and playing bridge. But unlike many of her peers, Parsons harbored an increasing uneasiness about racial segregation. In a memoir that includes candid diary excerpts, Parsons chronicles her moral awakening. With little support from her husband, she runs for the Atlanta Board of Education on a quietly integrationist platform and, once elected, becomes increasingly outspoken about inequitable school conditions and the slow pace of integration. Her activities bring her into contact with such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King. For a time, she leads a dual existence, sometimes traveling the great psychic distance from an NAACP meeting on Auburn Avenue to an all-white party in upscale Buckhead. She eventually drops her ladies' clubs, and her deepening involvement in the civil rights movement costs Parsons many friends as well as her first marriage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCBK:C095219766

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Feminist Collections by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCBK:C098759700

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew D. Lassiter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849420

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The Silent Majority by Matthew D. Lassiter Pdf

Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Richmond. Matthew Lassiter examines crucial battles over racial integration, court-ordered busing, and housing segregation to explain how the South moved from the era of Jim Crow fully into the mainstream of national currents. During the 1960s and 1970s, the grassroots mobilization of the suburban homeowners and school parents who embraced Richard Nixon's label of the Silent Majority reshaped southern and national politics and helped to set in motion the center-right shift that has dominated the United States ever since. The Silent Majority traces the emergence of a "color-blind" ideology in the white middle-class suburbs that defended residential segregation and neighborhood schools as the natural outcomes of market forces and individual meritocracy rather than the unconstitutional products of discriminatory public policies. Connecting local and national stories, and reintegrating southern and American history, The Silent Majority is critical reading for those interested in urban and suburban studies, political and social history, the civil rights movement, public policy, and the intersection of race and class in modern America.

Author : Redaktion Osnabrück
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110230259

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