Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston Volume 80

by William Henry Kellar

When faced by the Court-ordered "all deliberate speed" time frame for school desegregation, a fearful Houston school board member urged the city to "make haste slowly," in order for the school system to receive decisions based on sound judgment and discretion.

Houston, Texas, had what may have been the largest racially segregated "Jim Crow" public school system in the United States when the Supreme Court declared the practice unconstitutional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890968187
• ISBN13: 9780890968185
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"