Point of Reckoning : The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University

Segal, Theodore D.

Point of Reckoning : The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University - Duke University Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (400 p.)

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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.


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English

9781478012955 9781478010401 9781478011422 9781478012955

10.1215/9781478012955 doi


20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Social & cultural history
Colleges of higher education

Jim Crow; Black Power; black student activism; black campus movement; segregation; Black studies; HWCU