A Plantation System: Desegregation -- Like Bare Skin and Putting Salt on It: First Encounters -- Rights, as Opposed to Privileges: Race and Space -- We Were Their Sons and Daughters: Occupation of University House -- Hope Takes Its Last Stand: The Silent Vigil -- Humiliating to Plead for Our Humanity: Negotiations -- Now They Know, and They Ain't Gonna Do: Planning -- No Option to Negotiate: Confrontation -- We Shall Have Cocktails in the Gloaming: Aftermath -- Epilogue: Something Has to Change-2019, Fifty Years Later.
Summary
"Theodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face."-- Provided by publisher.
