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The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) swept aside the doctrine of separate-but-equal schools for blacks and shook the cultural foundations of the South. The well-intentioned goals of the mandate and the attendant state and local educational policies of school desegregation were catalysts for social change. But the success or failure of these policies depended on their implementation on the local and family levels. As a result, desegregation across the nation was an uneven and incomplete process.
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Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley, A History of African Americans in North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2002): 152.
Bland Simpson, The Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1990): 4.
Several studies serve as exemplars of local studies with broad implications. See, e.g., David Cecelski, Along Freedom Road: Hyde County North Carolina and the Struggle for Black Freedom (New York: Oxford Press, 1994)
Carol Stack, A Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South (New York: Basic Books, 1996)
Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004).
Jack Bass and Walter Devries, The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence since 1945 (New York: Basic Books, 1976).
See Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Della Pollock, Remembering: Performance and Oral History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Samuel Schrager “What is Social in Oral History?” International Journal of Oral History 4 (1983); Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson, eds, Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Development (London: Panos Publications, 1995).
Norman Denzin, Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003): xii.
See, e.g., Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (New York: Crown Publishers, 2005).
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Willink, K. (2009). Introduction. In: Bringing Desegregation Home. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100572_1
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