Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools
Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools
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阅读、写作和种族：夏洛特学校废除种族隔离
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1995
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D. M. Douglas
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D. M. Douglas
戴维森·道格拉斯 (Davison Douglas) 以北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市作为“温和”南方种族变化动态的案例研究，分析了从最高法院 1954 年“布朗诉教育委员会案”裁决到 20 世纪 70 年代初期该市公立学校废除种族隔离的情况，当时该市开始实施全国最雄心勃勃的校车计划。在规划种族变革的道路时，道格拉斯考虑了黑人社区利用公众示威和诉讼来强制废除种族隔离的相对功效。他还评估了该市白人商业界在促进种族进步方面的作用，该社区致力于维护夏洛特作为种族温和城市的形象。夏洛特的白人领导层急于避免对经济造成破坏的种族冲突，因此在 20 世纪 50 年代末和 1960 年代初早期就进行了象征性的融合，以回应黑人社区的公众抗议和诉讼努力。然而，20 世纪 60 年代末对广泛公交车的坚持提出了完全不同程度的整合要求。正如道格拉斯所表明的那样，该市的白人领导人最初抵制了公交车的呼吁，但最终态度软化，因为他们认识到稳定的学校系统对城市持续繁荣的重要性。戴维森·道格拉斯以北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市作为“温和”南方种族变化动态的案例研究，分析了该市公立学校从最高法院 1954 年布朗诉教育委员会案判决到 20 世纪 70 年代初期期间废除种族隔离的情况，当时该市开始实施全国最雄心勃勃的校车计划。
Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation. In charting the path of racial change, Douglas considers the relative efficacy of the black community's use of public demonstrations and litigation to force desegregation. He also evaluates the role of the city's white business community, which was concerned with preserving Charlotte's image as a racially moderate city, in facilitating racial gains. Charlotte's white leadership, anxious to avoid economically damaging racial conflict, engaged in early but decidedly token integration in the late 1950s and early 1960s in response to the black community's public protest and litigation efforts. The insistence in the late 1960s on widespread busing, however, posed integration demands of an entirely different magnitude. As Douglas shows, the city's white leaders initially resisted the call for busing but eventually relented because they recognized the importance of a stable school system to the city's continued prosperity. |Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation.