LEADER 04405nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910452949303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89902-7 010 $a0-8122-0797-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207972 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707697 035 $a(OCoLC)822017760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642170 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000786938 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11431918 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786938 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10803370 035 $a(PQKB)10663324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441835 035 $a(OCoLC)830023834 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24391 035 $a(DE-B1597)449622 035 $a(OCoLC)979741196 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207972 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441835 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642170 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421152 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707697 100 $a20120228d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetween north and south$b[electronic resource] $eDelaware, desegregation, and the myth of American sectionalism /$fBrett Gadsden 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 225 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4443-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. I. Challenging Jim Crow -- pt. II. Eliminating Jim Crow -- pt. III. Extending Brown's mandate. 330 $aBetween North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated popular complaints about the inequities in Jim Crow schooling into challenges to racial proscriptions in public education. Their legal victories subsequently provided the evidentiary basis for the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, marking Delaware as a center of civil rights advancements. Gadsden's further examination of a novel metropolitan approach to address the problem of segregation in city and suburban schools, wherein proponents highlighted the web of state-sponsored discrimination that produced interrelated school and residential segregation, reveals the strategic creativity of civil rights activists. He shows us how, even in the face of concerted white opposition, these activists continued to advance civil rights reforms into the 1970's, secured one of the most progressive busing remedies in the nation, and created a potential model for desegregation efforts across the United States. Between North and South also explores how activists on both sides of the contest in this border state-adjacent to the Mason-Dixon line-helped create, perpetuate, and contest ideas of southern exceptionalism and northern innocence. Gadsden offers instead a new framework in which "southern-style" and "northern-style" modes of racial segregation and discrimination are revealed largely as regional myths that civil rights activists and opponents alternately evoked and strategically deployed to both advance and thwart reform. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aSegregation in education$xLaw and legislation$zDelaware$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSchool integration$zDelaware$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDiscrimination in education$xLaw and legislation$zDelaware$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEducation$zDelaware$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSegregation in education$xLaw and legislation$xHistory 615 0$aSchool integration$xHistory 615 0$aDiscrimination in education$xLaw and legislation$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEducation$xHistory 676 $a379.2/6309751 700 $aGadsden$b Brett V.$f1969-$01054752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452949303321 996 $aBetween north and south$92487633 997 $aUNINA