Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Smith, Gerald L., 1959-

Title A Black educator in the segregated South : Kentucky's Rufus B. Atwood
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015

Copies

Description 1 online resource (242 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Homeplace; 2. Goodbye, Skullbuster -- 3. The New Administration; 4. Walking a Tightrope; 5. Beyond the Campus; 6. Difficult Days; 7. School Desegregation; 8. Spring 1960; 9. Measuring the Years; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary Black college presidents in the era of segregation walked a tightrope. They were expected to educate black youth without sufficient state and federal funding. Yet in the African American community they were supposed to represent power and influence and to be outspoken advocates of civil rights, despite the continual risk of offending the white politicians on whom they were dependent for funding. The dilemmas they faced in balancing these conflicting demands have never been fully examined. Gerald Smith's study of the long-time president of Kentucky State College helps fill that void. From 1929 t
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Atwood, Rufus B., 1897-
SUBJECT Atwood, Rufus B., 1897- fast
Subject Kentucky State College (Frankfort, Ky.) -- Presidents -- Biography
SUBJECT Kentucky State College (Frankfort, Ky.) fast
Subject Segregation in higher education -- Kentucky -- History
EDUCATION -- Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Presidents
Segregation in higher education
Kentucky
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813158679
0813158672
1322596441
9781322596440
0813118565
9780813118567