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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814440203321

Autore

Smith Gerald L. <1959->

Titolo

A Black educator in the segregated South : Kentucky's Rufus B. Atwood / / Gerald L. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-8131-5867-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/11

Soggetti

Segregation in higher education - Kentucky - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Homeplace; 2. Goodbye, ""Skullbuster""; 3. The New Administration; 4. Walking a Tightrope; 5. Beyond the Campus; 6. Difficult Days; 7. School Desegregation; 8. Spring 1960; 9. Measuring the Years; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Black college presidents in the era of segregation walked a tightrope. They were expected to educate black youth without sufficient state and federal funding. Yet in the African American community they were supposed to represent power and influence and to be outspoken advocates of civil rights, despite the continual risk of offending the white politicians on whom they were dependent for funding. The dilemmas they faced in balancing these conflicting demands have never been fully examined. Gerald Smith's study of the long-time president of Kentucky State College helps fill that void.From 1929 t