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Steady and measured : Benner C. Turner, a Black college president in the Jim Crow South
- Title
- Steady and measured : Benner C. Turner, a Black college president in the Jim Crow South / Travis D. Boyce.
- Author
- Boyce, Travis D.
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
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- Description
- x, 163 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State College during the civil rights era. Travis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's life and career in the context of the contrary pressures of white and Black authority. Borrowing an expression from Michelle Obama's remarks to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Boyce casts Turner, long-serving president of South Carolina State University, as a steady and measured leader who preserved the limited resources his historically Black institution possessed in the face of often hostile social, political, and economic power structures. Previous accounts of Turner and his SC State presidency portray him as unwilling to criticize the state's white power structure and unable to contend with their open resistance to civil rights. Boyce argues that the modern view of Turner flattens a complex terrain, often relying selectively on hostile sources, underplaying the political constraints on presidents of publicly funded HBCUs in the South. Considering Turner in a richer context, with a deep awareness of Turner's early life formative influences, Boyce provides a more complete critical examination of his leadership in trying times"--
- Subject
- Turner, Benner C., 1905-1988
- South Carolina State College > Presidents > Biography
- South Carolina State College
- 1900-1999
- African American college presidents > South Carolina > Biography
- Historically Black colleges and universities > South Carolina > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > South Carolina > 20th century
- African American college presidents
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Historically Black colleges and universities
- Presidents
- Race relations
- African Americans
- South Carolina > Race relations > History > 20th century
- South Carolina
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "... A man of dignity, a man of integrity, and a man of courage" -- An outsider within: formative years and early education -- Completing his father's work: Turner's early law career -- Pessimistic pragmatist: Turner's presidency in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education -- Academic leadership during campus turmoil -- Leaving and not looking back: life and legacy after South Carolina State College.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-1347
- ISBN
- 9781643364438
- 164336443X
- 9781643364445
- 1643364448
- 9781643364452 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023027625
- OCLC
- 1376918183
- Author
- Boyce, Travis D., author.
- Title
- Steady and measured : Benner C. Turner, a Black college president in the Jim Crow South / Travis D. Boyce.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-1347