In this Book
- Integrating the 40 Acres: The Fifty-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended affirmative action in the state's public institutions of higher education. She draws on oral histories, university documents, and newspaper accounts to detail how the university moved from open discrimination to foot-dragging acceptance to mixed successes in the integration of athletics, classrooms, dormitories, extracurricular activities, and student recruitment. Goldstone incorporates not only the perspectives of university administrators, students, alumni, and donors, but also voices from all sides of the civil rights movement at the local and national level. This instructive story of power, race, money, and politics remains relevant to the modern university and the continuing question about what it means to be integrated.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- 3. Desegregation on and off Campus
- pp. 56-89
- 4. Dormitory Integration
- pp. 90-111
- 5. Black Integration of the Athletic Program
- pp. 112-134
- 6. Desegregation from 1964 to the Present
- pp. 135-149
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 189-206