04405nam 2200733 a 450 991045294930332120200520144314.01-283-89902-70-8122-0797-110.9783/9780812207972(CKB)2550000000707697(OCoLC)822017760(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642170(SSID)ssj0000786938(PQKBManifestationID)11431918(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786938(PQKBWorkID)10803370(PQKB)10663324(MiAaPQ)EBC3441835(OCoLC)830023834(MdBmJHUP)muse24391(DE-B1597)449622(OCoLC)979741196(DE-B1597)9780812207972(Au-PeEL)EBL3441835(CaPaEBR)ebr10642170(CaONFJC)MIL421152(EXLCZ)99255000000070769720120228d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBetween north and south[electronic resource] Delaware, desegregation, and the myth of American sectionalism /Brett Gadsden1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20131 online resource (327 p.)Politics and Culture in Modern AmericaPolitics and culture in modern AmericaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4443-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Challenging Jim Crow -- pt. II. Eliminating Jim Crow -- pt. III. Extending Brown's mandate.Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated popular complaints about the inequities in Jim Crow schooling into challenges to racial proscriptions in public education. Their legal victories subsequently provided the evidentiary basis for the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, marking Delaware as a center of civil rights advancements. Gadsden's further examination of a novel metropolitan approach to address the problem of segregation in city and suburban schools, wherein proponents highlighted the web of state-sponsored discrimination that produced interrelated school and residential segregation, reveals the strategic creativity of civil rights activists. He shows us how, even in the face of concerted white opposition, these activists continued to advance civil rights reforms into the 1970's, secured one of the most progressive busing remedies in the nation, and created a potential model for desegregation efforts across the United States. Between North and South also explores how activists on both sides of the contest in this border state-adjacent to the Mason-Dixon line-helped create, perpetuate, and contest ideas of southern exceptionalism and northern innocence. Gadsden offers instead a new framework in which "southern-style" and "northern-style" modes of racial segregation and discrimination are revealed largely as regional myths that civil rights activists and opponents alternately evoked and strategically deployed to both advance and thwart reform.Politics and culture in modern America.Segregation in educationLaw and legislationDelawareHistory20th centurySchool integrationDelawareHistory20th centuryDiscrimination in educationLaw and legislationDelawareHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansEducationDelawareHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Segregation in educationLaw and legislationHistorySchool integrationHistoryDiscrimination in educationLaw and legislationHistoryAfrican AmericansEducationHistory379.2/6309751Gadsden Brett V.1969-1054752MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452949303321Between north and south2487633UNINA