A Campaign of Quiet Persuasion: How the College Board Desegregated Sat(r) Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965

by Jan Bates Wheeler

Book Overview

In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the Deep South. Traveling from state to state, taking one school district and even one school at a time, two College Board staff members, both native southerners, waged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807152714
• ISBN13: 9780807152713
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"