Confronting Jim Crow : race, memory, and the University of Georgia in the twentieth century /
Since the onset of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, America has grappled with its racial history, leading to the removal of statues and other markers commemorating pro-slavery sympathizers and segregationists from public spaces. Some of these white suprem...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Race, memory, and the University of Georgia in the twentieth century
- Leading and misleading Georgia: UGA and Jim Crow Georgia's education and political power elite
- Two, four, six, eight we don't want to integrate: white student attitudes toward the University of Georgia's desegregation
- Postscript to chapter 2
- G-men in Georgia: the FBI and the segregationist riot at the University of Georgia, 1961
- Postscript to chapter 3
- Black memory and UGA's desegregation struggle
- Freedom dreams and segregationist nightmares: Charlayne Hunter, Walter Stovall, and UGA's first interracial marriage
- Decades of desegregation: the slow death and afterlife of Jim Crow at UGA, 1963-1989
- New day or Old South? Late 1990s UGA student reflections on campus race relations in their time vs. 1961
- Commemorations.