Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle Over Educational Equality

by Pamela Grundy

Book Overview

At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality. West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations of the growing African American population of Charlotte, North Carolina. In the 1970s, when Charlotte began court-ordered busing, black and white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469636077
• ISBN13: 9781469636078
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"