Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools

by Davison M. Douglas

Book Overview

Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation. In charting the path of racial change, Douglas considers the relative efficacy of the black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807845299
• ISBN13: 9780807845295
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"