THE NEGRO AND THE SCHOOLS

by Harry S. Ashmore ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This book reaches us too late for advance report. But in view of the action of the Supreme Court in outlawing segregation in schools, this book has top priority. It becomes virtually an historic document in its impartial presentation of the issues in the public schools of both the South and the non-South. The historical background is here; the steps of slow progress; the case histories of some of the Negroes who made successive steps possible; the efforts of the South to work out equal opportunities in separate schools. He discusses the population shifts that have changed both North and South, and other factors that have drastically altered the picture. Most of the scholars who contributed to the findings summarized here are Southerners, and the author is a South Carolinian journalist, now in Arkansas. Here is a summary that presents the facts for the layman at a moment when every alert American recognizes the challenge of the Supreme Court decision.

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ISBN: 080787969X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Univ. of N. Ca.-Chapel Hill

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION