This narrative history of the desegregation of the daily press in America during the late twentieth century is structured around the career of journalist Robert Maynard, a leader and symbol of the crusade to change the color of news. Press desegregation evolved along with the la…
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This qualitative study is a narrative investigation that analyzes the educational experiences of the segregated Turkish people of Sumter County, South Carolina during the integration movement. Four participants share their stories of how attending an elementary school for Turkis…
This study provided a historical analysis of the 1968 court ordered desegregation of South Holland School District 151. The purpose of this case study was to examine, according to primary source evidence, how the superintendents grounded their decisions within the prevailing soc…
In 1943, the push of Ethel Williams, a Black woman, to study at Saint Louis University (SLU), ended up in the institution’s official acceptance of African Americans to the student body a year later. This historic change was partially possible thanks to the decades-long struggle …
I examined 30 semi-structured interviews of adult North Carolina residents who experienced the racial integration of schools firsthand. My main research question: how did Black and White people perceive the racial integration of schools as it initially unfolded? My interviewees’…
Seattle was the first U.S. city to authorize a mandatory desegregation plan without a court order. Yet, it was also the site almost two decades letter of the U.S. Supreme Court case Parents Involved in Community Schools, which deemed Seattle’s remaining race-conscious desegregat…
The 1960’s educational desegregation movement sought to remedy racial inequities within school districts, with mandatory school busing as a means to reduce racial segregation and enhance educational equality throughout the U.S. More recently, the 2002 No Children Left Behind Act…
The 1966 Seattle school boycott and freedom schools represent a case of successful activism that did not translate into successful long-term policy. Instead, the value of the boycott lies in the role it played as a catalyst in Seattle’s decades-long series of desegregation attem…
This study examines the development of school desegregation in docudrama film from1962–1998. Previous academic research on this topic is extremely limited. School desegregation has remained largely unexplored as a cinematic sub-genre. The aim of the research was to determine def…
Bowdon, Georgia, has an almost century-long history related to the apparel industry. The public memory of this industry underplays the role played by Black workers and reinforces the traditional white, paternalistic ideology of the textile industry. This thesis examines the hist…
This Capstone project will be used to view the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) within a narrow time frame to expose the association’s active protests of the United States military. Emphasis will be placed on the relationships betwee…
College football has long served as an apparatus for advancing racial equality, but the process by which it did so has been muddled and oversimplified. Popular histories have often reduced college football’s desegregation down to a singular event, the 1970 USC-Alabama game. Alth…
Although Clemson University’s first African-American student, Harvey Gantt, was admitted in 1963, the first African-American athlete did not sign with Clemson until 1969. This thesis assesses the years leading up to athletic desegregation at Clemson University, and explores the …