"A cruel hoax": How Brown v. Board of Education undermined Florida's black educators,an examination of two counties,1954--1971.

详细信息   

• 作者：Palmer ; Kathryn B.
• 学历：Master
• 年：2014
• 毕业院校：The Florida State University
• Department：History.
• ISBN：9781321003116
• CBH：1559555
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：2802170
• Pages：106

文摘

This historical research study focuses on the subject of school desegregation and its affect on black educators in two northern Florida counties,Leon and Alachua. Using Brown v. Board of Education 1954,1955) as an axis,the study engages the concept of "legal resistance" employed by Floridas government as a nonviolent means of circumventing the desegregation order. As recent historiographical contributions to civil rights in Florida assert,the Sunshine States civil rights history falls short of the "exceptionalism" lawmakers and news media attempted to portray. Recent contribution to the historical understanding of Floridas race relations suggests a much different story of struggle and sacrifice. Although black educators in the state worked to lift up their public schools in spite of unequal access,the closing of black schools as a means of achieving integration bespoke the apathy of local school officials. Both Alachua and Leon County reside in the northern region of Florida,and both municipalities expressed open resistance to integrated education. Home to two of the most well-regarded African-American high schools in the Sunshine State,both counties took immense pride in their passionate educators. Tallahassee and Gainesville were two Florida cities with a complex history of segregated public school systems,and out of those constructions came two segregated high schools； both named Lincoln. In reviewing the records and literature associated with both Lincoln High School in Tallahassee and Lincoln High School in Gainesville,the commitment of each schools faculty emerges as a major source of strength for both segregated African-American communities. When school desegregation is examined on the individual high school level,the deeply personal impact of the Brown v. Board ruling on Floridas black educators becomes clearer. This historical research study will analyze the impact of Brown v. Board on two black high schools in two Florida counties. This is a testament to a small group of African-American educators,who,in spite of Jim Crow,never forgot the importance of education. Finally,this work should be understood as a small contribution to a growing body of literature devoted to understanding school desegregation on a local scale. In both of the following cases,black teachers and administrators suffered the most as a result of school desegregation,losing both professional and social agency. This study aims to tell their stories.