Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools

by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford

In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk's African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city's schools. The authors relate how local activists participated in the historic teacher-pay-parity cases of the 1930s and 1940s, how they fought against the school closures and "Massive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813932882
• ISBN13: 9780813932880
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"