Race and Education in North Carolina: From Segregation to Desegregation (Making the Modern South)

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The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the nation. In Race and Education in North Carolina, John E. Batchelor, a former North Carolina school superintendent, offers a robust analysis of this sea change and the initiatives that comprised the gradual, and steadily reluctant, desegregation of the state’s public schools.
In a state known for relative racial moderation, North Carolina government officials usually steered clear of fiery rhetorical rejections of Brown v. Board of Education, in contrast to the position of leaders in most other parts of the South. Instead, they played for time, staving off influential legislators who wanted to close public schools and provide vouchers to enhance segregated private schools, instituting policies that would admit a couple of black students into white schools, and continuing to sanction segregation right through some of the public education system. Litigation — primarily initiated by the NAACP — and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 created stronger mandates for progress and forced government officials to accelerate the pace of desegregation. Batchelor sheds light on the way local school districts pursued this goal at the same time as community leaders, school board members, administrators, and teachers struggled to balance new policy demands with deeply entrenched racial prejudice and widespread enhance for continued segregation.
Drawing from case law, newspapers, interviews with policy makers, civil rights leaders, and attorneys involved in school desegregation, in addition to prior to now unused archival material, Race and Education in North Carolina presents a richly textured history of the legal and political factors that informed, obstructed, and after all cleared the way for desegregation in the North Carolina public education system.

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