After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal cou

After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal cou

In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black s

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision,