Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 55.00 US

Binding: Hardcover

Pub Date: October 01, 2008

Annotation: This book examines the influences on the racial policies of the elite private universities in the South in the wake of World War II. As pressure to abandon segregation in higher education grew, the presidents and trustees of these institutions struggled-with both outsiders and with each other-to maintain their traditional leadership role in southern society while also joining the national mainstream. By the early 1960s, realizing finally that they could not have both, they grudgingly opened admissions to black students and thereby gave themselves a chance at national eminence.