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Author Segal, Theodore D., 1955- author.

Title Point of reckoning : the fight for racial justice at Duke University / Theodore D. Segal.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 366 pages)
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A Plantation System: Desegregation -- Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters -- Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space -- We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House -- Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil -- Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations -- Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning -- No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation -- We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath -- Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.
Summary "Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Duke University -- Students.
Duke University. (OCoLC)fst00540631
African American college students -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in higher education -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History -- 20th century.
Durham (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
African American college students. (OCoLC)fst00799102
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Racism in higher education. (OCoLC)fst01744191
Students. (OCoLC)fst01136041
North Carolina -- Durham. (OCoLC)fst01207378
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Segal, Theodore D., 1955- Point of reckoning. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478010401 9781478011422 (DLC) 2020021181 (OCoLC)1157945565
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