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The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Frye Gaillard
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Description for The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Hardcover. Tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for the desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the state of the city's public school system. This work chronicles the span of Charlotte's five-decade struggle with race in education to remind us that the national dilemma of equal educational opportunity remains unsettled. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFSL1; JNK; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
The Dream Long Deferred tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for the desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the present state of the city's public school system. Gaillard, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions of this work to examine the difficult circumstances of the present day. Charlotte began voluntary desegregation in 1957, but the slow pace lead to lawsuits to demand immediate and complete integration. When the U.S. District Court in 1969, and subsequently the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971, upheld that demand in the landmark Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, ... Read more
The Dream Long Deferred tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for the desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the present state of the city's public school system. Gaillard, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions of this work to examine the difficult circumstances of the present day. Charlotte began voluntary desegregation in 1957, but the slow pace lead to lawsuits to demand immediate and complete integration. When the U.S. District Court in 1969, and subsequently the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971, upheld that demand in the landmark Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ of South Carolina Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570036453
SKU
V9781570036453
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About Frye Gaillard
Frye Gaillard, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama is the author of nineteen books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America - winner of the 2005 Lillian Smith Book Award. Gaillard writes for Parade, the Oxford American, Saturday Review, and the Washington Post.
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