Integrating the 40 Acres
Subtitle: The Fifty-year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: August 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780820328287
Subjects: Black studies; Universities / polytechnics; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Education / Teaching; History: American; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Higher; History; History / United States; United States - 20th Century; United States - State & Local - General; African Americans; College integration; Education (Higher); Texas
Description: "In this first full-length history of the university's desegregation, Dwonna Goldstone examines how, for decades, administrators only gradually undid the most visible signs of formal segregation while preventing true racial integration.".

"Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended affirmative action in the state's public institutions of higher education. She draws on oral histories, university documents, and newspaper accounts to detail how the university moved from open discrimination to foot-dragging acceptance to mixed successes in the integration of athletics, classrooms, dormitories, extracurricular activities, and student recruitment.

Goldstone incorporates not only the perspectives of university administrators, students, alumni, and donors, but also voices from all sides of the local and national civil rights movement."--BOOK JACKET.