Research Catalog

Title

Schools in transition : community experiences in desegregation / edited by Robin M. Williams, Jr. and Margaret W. Ryan.

Publication

• Chapel Hill, N.C. : The University of North Carolina Press, [1954]
• ©1954.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, Robin M., Jr., 1914-2006
• Ryan, Margaret W., 1922-

Description

xiii, 272 pages; 21 cm

Summary

This book reports some of the recent experiences of twenty-four communities in states bordering the South as they have moved from racially segregated toward integrated public schools. It aims to be a study based on facts. Within the limits of ordinary human fallibility, it tries to present a balanced account of the situations described. The available evidence is far from complete, and further and more penetrating research is greatly to be desired. Yet where we have so little objective information of any kind it seems quite worthwhile to present the rather specific studies to be summarized here. They are indicative or suggestive rather than conclusive, but they do put on the record a wide range of real experiences with a set of very complicated human problems. The work is intended for the informed citizen, whether school official or teacher or interested member of a community. It has not attempted to develop a highly technical analysis in sociological or psychological terms. On the other hand, the materials presented perhaps will be of interest to many social scientists.

Alternative Title

Community experiences in desegregation

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African Americans > Education
• African Americans > Segregation
• Segregation in education
• Segregation in education > United States
• Race relations
• Cincinnati (Ohio) > Race relations > 20th century
• Cairo (Ill.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Gary (Ind.) > Race relations > 20th century
• South Bend (Ind.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Camden (N.J.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Atlantic City (N.J.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Burlington (N.J.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Salem (N.J.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Phoenix (Ariz.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Douglas (Ariz.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Nogales (Ariz.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Tucson (Ariz.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Carlsbad (N.M.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Alamogordo (N.M.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Roswell (N.M.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Hobbs (N.M.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Clovis (N.M.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Arizona > Douglas
• Arizona > Nogales
• Arizona > Phoenix
• Arizona > Tucson
• Illinois > Cairo
• Indiana > Gary
• Indiana > South Bend
• New Jersey > Atlantic City
• New Jersey > Burlington
• New Jersey > Camden
• New Jersey > Salem
• New Mexico > Alamogordo
• New Mexico > Carlsbad
• New Mexico > Clovis
• New Mexico > Hobbs
• New Mexico > Roswell
• Ohio > Cincinnati
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p.263-264.

Contents

Part I. The background ; What desegregation means -- State laws set limits -- Part II. Desegregation required ; The gradual approach : Cincinnati, Ohio -- Variation under the law : Indianapolis and other Indiana communities -- Community in chaos : Cairo, Illinois -- Reaction to shock : Gary and South Bend, Indiana -- Toward integration : Camden, Atlantic City, Burlington, and Salem, New Jersey -- Part III. Desegregation permitted ; Initial hesitation : Phoenix, Douglas, and Nogales, Arizona ; Mount Holly, New Jersey -- Patterns of adjustment : Carlsbad, Las Cruces, Alamogordo, and Roswell, New Mexico -- Response to the Supreme Court decision : Hobbs and Clovis, New Mexico -- Mission accomplished : Tucson, Arizona -- Part IV. Implications for the future ; In summary : review and prelude -- Appendices.

LCCN

54013292

OCLC

• ocm00188412
• 188412
• SCSB-2038766

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library