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Smith, Gerald L. – 1994
This book reviews the career of Rufus Ballard Atwood, who served as president of Kentucky State University from 1929 to 1962. The book describes how he was often chosen by whites to represent the African American community on boards and commissions and how these appointments gave him access to the state's political and educational power structure.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Institutions
Hardin, John A. – 1997
This book examines the history of 20th century racial segregation in Kentucky higher education, the last state in the South to enact legislation banning interracial education in private schools and the first to remove it. In five chapters and an epilogue, the book traces the growth of racism, the period of acceptance of racism, the black…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Community, Black Education, Black History
