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Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University
Duke University Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-1-4780-1040-1 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1142-2 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-1295-5 Library of Congress Classification LC2803.D87S443 2021
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration building. That evening, police were summoned to clear the building, firing tear gas at students in the melee that followed. When it was over, nearly twenty people were taken to the hospital, and many more injured. In Point of Reckoning, Theodore D. Segal narrates the contested fight for racial justice at Duke from the enrollment of the first Black undergraduates in 1963 to the events that led to the Allen Building takeover and beyond. Segal shows that Duke's first Black students quickly recognized that the university was unwilling to acknowledge their presence or fully address its segregationist past. By exposing the tortuous dynamics that played out as racial progress stalled at Duke, Segal tells both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country have faced and continue to face. See other books on: African American college students | North Carolina | Point | Reckoning | Students See other titles from Duke University Press |
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Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Duke University Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-1-4780-1040-1
Paper: 978-1-4780-1142-2
eISBN: 978-1-4780-1295-5
Cloth: 978-1-4780-1040-1
Paper: 978-1-4780-1142-2
eISBN: 978-1-4780-1295-5
On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration building. That evening, police were summoned to clear the building, firing tear gas at students in the melee that followed. When it was over, nearly twenty people were taken to the hospital, and many more injured. In Point of Reckoning, Theodore D. Segal narrates the contested fight for racial justice at Duke from the enrollment of the first Black undergraduates in 1963 to the events that led to the Allen Building takeover and beyond. Segal shows that Duke's first Black students quickly recognized that the university was unwilling to acknowledge their presence or fully address its segregationist past. By exposing the tortuous dynamics that played out as racial progress stalled at Duke, Segal tells both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country have faced and continue to face.
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