Between North and South chronicles the three-decades-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction, that despite concerted white opposition to reforms produced one of the most progressive desegregation remedies in the nation.

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

Brett Gadsden

2012 | 352 pages | Cloth $45.00
American History | Public Policy | Political Science | African-American/African Studies
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Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I. CHALLENGING JIM CROW
Chapter 1. "There Is a Movement on Foot"
Chapter 2. "He Wouldn't Help Me Get a Jim Crow Bus"

PART II. ELIMINATING JIM CROW
Chapter 3. "The Delaware Method of Solving Things"
Chapter 4. "If We Must and Are to Have Integration"

PART III. EXTENDING BROWN'S MANDATE
Chapter 5. "The Other Side of the Milliken Coin"
Chapter 6. "For and Against School Busing"

Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments