‘New book out and I will fetch it on tomorrow.
It should be a very interesting read.



Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement’

For every James Meredith, who gained fame for becoming the first black student at the University of Mississippi, there were many other students who broke racial barriers without attracting much attention. Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners and College Campuses (University Press of Florida) tells the stories of some of those students and also portrays the broader story of the desegregation of higher education — which the essays in the book argue was much more evolutionary than was James Meredith’s experience at Ole Miss. Peter Wallenstein, a professor of history at Virginia Tech, edited the volume and responded to e-mail questions about its themes.



http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/02/wallenstein