The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina

by Frye Gaillard

Book Overview

A fifty-year history of one community's battles with race in public education

The Dream Long Deferred tells the fifty-year story of the landmark struggle for desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the present state of the city's public school system. Award-winning writer Frye Gaillard, who covered school integration for the Charlotte Observer, updates his earlier 1988 and 1999 editions of this work to examine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036454
• ISBN13: 9781570036453
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"