Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism

by Brett V. Gadsden

Book Overview

Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated popular complaints about the inequities in Jim Crow schooling into challenges to racial proscriptions in public education. Their legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244435
• ISBN13: 9780812244434
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"