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Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education
1953–1963
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2020
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The goals of achieving equal citizenship rights for African Americans and international respect for human rights inspired Charles H. Thompson to focus his attention on ending segregation as public policy in the United States. As editor of The Journal of Negro Education, from 1932 to 1963, Thompson tirelessly championed equal educational and economic opportunities for African Americans and other targets of discrimination. Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education captures the evolving struggle for civil rights from the perspective of an education insider, brilliant scholar-activist, and arguably the leading dean in African American higher education between 1938 and 1963.
This study focuses on Thompson's efforts, between 1953 and 1963, to mobilize his readers, including African American teachers, to support the civil rights movement including voter registration drives, boycotts, the sit-ins, as well as the NAACP litigation campaign. He encouraged them to support principled, African American leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and their campaigns for social justice. Thompson remained confident that they and their allies would prevail so long as they adhered to the ethical principles that informed their movement and applied political and economic pressure intelligently. The desegregation of public education and the strengthening of African American higher education, for Thompson, served as wedges for extending democracy in the US.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-991-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-992-8
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
153
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Sensing the Initiative Slipping Away No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter Two: The Hot Springs Conference and Teacher Welfare No access Pages 7 - 16
Chapter Three: Litigation as a Twin of Direct Action No access Pages 17 - 28
Chapter Four: “This Leadership is neither ignorant nor afraid” No access Pages 29 - 42
Chapter Five: The Implosion of the New Deal Coalition No access Pages 43 - 58
Chapter Six: Strengthening African American Higher Education No access Pages 59 - 72
Chapter Seven: The Criminalization of African American Youth No access Pages 73 - 84
Chapter Eight: Reassessing Civil Rights Goals No access Pages 85 - 94
Chapter Nine: Inequality Persists and Takes New Forms No access Pages 95 - 106
Chapter Ten: Confirmation or Reset? No access Pages 107 - 116
Chapter Eleven: Where Does the North Star Go at Daybreak? No access Pages 117 - 126
Chapter Twelve: Afterword No access Pages 127 - 140
