"With All Deliberate Speed" - School Desegregation in Newberry: A Story of Protest and Resistance
By (Author) Joe McDonald
BookBaby
BookBaby
4th January 2024
United States
General
Non Fiction
Paperback
158
Width 139mm, Height 215mm, Spine 10mm
222g
This book is a history of the school desegregation battle in Newberry, SC, which resulted in a student boycott of classes at Gallman High School, the only black high school in the county, in the fall of 1969. Starting with the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896, the book traces the growing protest movement against Jim Crow and the political-economic conditions that made protest possible. The author uses newspaper research and interviews with participants to construct the story of protest in Newberry and the details of the student boycott.
Joe McDonald is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Newberry College in Newberry, SC.