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Kelly, Hilton – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, teachers, and community members.…
Descriptors: United States History, Racial Segregation, African American History, Memory
Willink, Kate – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered states to eliminate racial segregation in public schools with "all deliberate speed." Nonetheless, many all-white school boards in "progressive" North Carolina delayed "de jure" segregation for decades and condoned elements of "de facto" segregation that persist today.…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Public Schools, Rural Schools