Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University - Softcover

Segal, Theodore D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478011424 ISBN 13: 9781478011422

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration building. That evening, police were summoned to clear the building, firing tear gas at students in the melee that followed. When it was over, nearly twenty people were taken to the hospital, and many more injured. In Point of Reckoning, Theodore D. Segal narrates the contested fight for racial justice at Duke from the enrollment of the first Black undergraduates in 1963 to the events that led to the Allen Building takeover and beyond. Segal shows that Duke's first Black students quickly recognized that the university was unwilling to acknowledge their presence or fully address its segregationist past. By exposing the tortuous dynamics that played out as racial progress stalled at Duke, Segal tells both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country have faced and continue to face.

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Theodore D. Segal is a lawyer and member of the board of directors for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke in 1977.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1478011424
• ISBN 13: 9781478011422
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402
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