Point of Reckoning
The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Jim Crow; Black Power; black student activism; black campus movement; segregation; Black studies; HWCUDOI
10.1215/9781478012955ISBN
9781478010401, 9781478011422, 9781478012955, 9781478012955Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
2021Grantor
Classification
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Social & cultural history
Colleges of higher education