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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454747903321

Autore

Harvey Gordon E (Gordon Earl), <1967->

Titolo

A question of justice [[electronic resource] ] : New South governors and education, 1968-1976 / / Gordon E. Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8173-1337-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

370.975

379.761

Soggetti

Education and state - Alabama - History - 20th century

Education and state - Florida - History - 20th century

Education and state - South Carolina - History - 20th century

Educational change - Alabama - History - 20th century

Educational change - Florida - History - 20th century

Educational change - South Carolina - History - 20th century

School integration - Alabama - History - 20th century

School integration - Florida - History - 20th century

School integration - South Carolina - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: ALBERT BREWER OF ALABAMA; 1. "Deeper Than a Bus Running Down a Road": The Integration of Alabama's Public Schools; 2. "Why Not the Teachers?": Education Reform in Alabama, 1968-1970; PART II: REUBIN ASKEW OF FLORIDA; 3. A Question of Justice: The 1972 Florida Busing Straw Vote; 4. Building a Better Florida: The 1973 Florida Education Reforms; PART III: JOHN C. WEST OF SOUTH CAROLINA; 5. Forging a "New South Carolina": The Aftermath of Integration; 6. Sunbelt to the Rescue: Education Reform in South Carolina; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Three trailblazers for education reform in the Sunbelt South. In southern politics, 1970 marked a watershed. A group of southern



governors entered office that year and changed both the way the nation looked at the South and the way the constituents of those states viewed themselves. Reubin Askew in Florida, John West in South Carolina, Jimmy Carter in Georgia, and Albert Brewer in Alabama all represented a new breed of progressive moderate politician that helped demolish Jim Crow segregation and the dual economies, societies, and educational syste