Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South (Studies in Legal History)

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David Cecelski chronicles some of the sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement–the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For a whole year, the county’s black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests day-to-day for five months, marched twice on the state capitol in Raleigh, and drove the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in a massive gunfight.

The threatened closing of Hyde County’s black schools collided with a wealthy and vibrant educational heritage that had helped to sustain the black community since Reconstruction. As other southern school boards automatically closed black schools and displaced their educational leaders, Hyde County blacks started to fear that school desegregation used to be undermining–slightly than enhancing–this legacy. This book, then, is the story of one county’s unusual struggle for civil rights, but at the same time it explores the fight for civil rights in all of eastern North Carolina and the dismantling of black education all through the South.

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