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Author Dufford, William E., author.

Title My tour through the asylum : a Southern integrationist's memoir / William E. Dufford with Aida Rogers and Salley McInerney.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

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Contents Cover; My Tour through the Asylum; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword: The Summer I Met My First Great Man; Prologue: Realizing How It Was and How It Should Have Been; PART 1: 1926-1968; Chapter 1 The Web; Chapter 2 Rambling; Chapter 3 Good Home Training; Chapter 4 One of the Boys; Chapter 5 Separation at the Pool, Unity on the Home Front; Chapter 6 Heeding the Call; Chapter 7 Out in the World; Chapter 8 From Navy Veteran to Frat Boy; Chapter 9 Winyah Gators; Chapter 10 Two Homecomings in Two Years; Chapter 11 It Was Ugly in Your Head.
Chapter 12 The Path Gets ClearerChapter 13 Lift Every Voice and Sing; Chapter 14 Definitions; PART 2: 1969-1976; Chapter 15 Spring 1969; Chapter 16 Welcome to Sumter; Chapter 17 Reunion with Reed Swann; Chapter 18 Student Body President Allen Johnson; Chapter 19 Steps to Togetherness; Chapter 20 Breaking the Ice in the Hot Tub; Chapter 21 For God and Coach; Chapter 22 The Salvation of Walter McRackan; Chapter 23 Bus Ride; Chapter 24 Scuffle; Chapter 25 Parents Speak Out; Chapter 26 Alabama Kisses; Chapter 27 Pool in School; Chapter 28 Becoming Familiar with the Unfamiliar.
Chapter 29 On the Steps of Edmunds GymChapter 30 Good Luck Class of 1970; Chapter 31 Pomp and Circumstance; Chapter 32 The Biggest Achievement of the Year; Chapter 33 Baseball Dreams; Chapter 34 Left Behind; Chapter 35 Freedom Song; Chapter 36 Summer Upheaval; Chapter 37 A Statewide Mission; Chapter 38 Sumter Fall-Out; Chapter 39 Summer Study 1971; Chapter 40 Boston Calling; Chapter 41 The Deepening, Widening Circle; Chapter 42 From the Frying Pan to the Fire; Chapter 43 Welcome to York; Chapter 44 A New Team; Chapter 45 Impossible to Say No; Chapter 46 Learning the District.
Chapter 47 Decision at Hickory KnobChapter 48 Tension Rising; Chapter 49 Last Man Standing; or, Swann Song; Chapter 50 The Crash; PART 3: 1977-2016; Chapter 51 Back Outside the Fray; Chapter 52 The Way It Should Be; Chapter 53 Justice and Fairness; Chapter 54 The Old Plantation and the Upper Room; Chapter 55 Oldest Living Newberry Indian; Chapter 56 Houses and Kids and Cars; Chapter 57 Ode to Secretaries, Custodians, and Team Managers; Epilogue: Hold to the Past, Look to the Future.
Summary The life story of a South Carolina champion of education and his transformation from segregationist to integrationist.
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Subject Dufford, William E., author.
Educators -- United States -- Biography.
Educators.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject School integration -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
School integration.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Educational equalization -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Educational equalization.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Dufford, William E. My tour through the asylum. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017] 9781611178968 (DLC) 2017041466
ISBN 9781611178975 (electronic book)
1611178975 (electronic book)
9781611178968 (hardback)
1611178967