The best of that world : historically Black high schools and the crisis of desegregation in a southern metropolis /

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Author / Creator:Shircliffe, Barbara J.
Imprint:Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c2006.
Description:xiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Understanding education and policy
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6026612
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ISBN:1572736305 (cl)
1572736313 (ppb)
9781572736306 (cl)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction : desegregation, nostalgia and the all-black school
  • Ch. 2. Class, race, and white supremacy : the development of school segregation in Florida
  • Ch. 3. Accommodation and resistance : the struggle for educational equity
  • Ch. 4. Florida's movement for civil rights : post war boom, educational expansion, and Brown
  • Ch. 5. With all deliberate reluctance : moderation and desegregation in Hillsborough County, Florida
  • Ch. 6. The politics of school desegregation : the closing of historically black high schools in Hillsborough County
  • Ch. 7. "The best of that world" : nostalgia and the historically black high school
  • Ch. 8. The restoration of Blake and Middleton High Schools
  • Ch. 9. Unitary status : controlled choice, magnets, community schooling, and the black community.