Blacks against Brown
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Blacks against Brown

The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Blacks against Brown

The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas

About this book

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) is regarded as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. Historical observers have widely viewed this landmark Supreme Court decision as a significant sign of racial progress for African Americans. However, there is another historical perspective that tells a much more complex tale of Black resistance to the NAACP’s decision to pursue desegregating America’s public schools.

This multifaceted history documents the intra-racial conflict among Black Topekans over the city’s segregated schools. Black resistance to school integration challenges conventional narratives about Brown by highlighting community concerns about economic and educational opportunities for Black educators and students and Black residents' pride in all-Black schools. This history of the local story behind Brown v. Board contributes to a literature that provides a fuller and more complex perspective on African Americans and their relationship to Black education and segregated schools during the Jim Crow era.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter One. Over John Brown’s Dead Body: White Supremacy and White Liberalism in Kansas
  10. Chapter Two. The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Separate but Equal in Topeka Public Schools, 1861–1954
  11. Chapter Three. Reading, Ri(gh)ting, and Resistance: Racial Uplift Ideologies and Practices in Topeka’s All-Black Schools, 1929–1954
  12. Chapter Four. Graham v. Board and the Clash of the Black Counterpublics, 1941–1948
  13. Chapter Five. Harrison Caldwell: The Unsung Black Antihero of Brown
  14. Chapter Six. Blacks against Brown: The Final Chapter, 1948–1954
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Index