Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina 3rd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. This mongraph is helpful because it discusses the battle of integration in Charlotte’s history. Gaillard begins her analysis in the 1950s when Charlotte chose to begin voluntary desegregation of its schools in 1957. However, like most “New South” cities, over the next decade it made extremely slow progression towards full integration. The “deliberate speed” pace began to frustrate African Americans in Charlotte, which eventually led them to file lawsuits in federal that demanded complete integration. The landmark decision, Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg School District,
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The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. This monograph is important for my thesis research because, it explains how the white middle class that remained neutral in the discussion of race as it relates to integration. Lassiter provides a thorough regional analysis of school desegregation case studies in Atlanta and Charlotte. The color blind tactics of the “Silent Majority” undermined desegregation by instituting an slow integration plan change for a few high achieving black students. When this system came under fire from the federal courts in the late 1970s, Charlotte began bussing but then like Atlanta turned to a system of neighborhood schools to restore order, increasing “white flight” and residential segregation. The restoration of neighborhood schools remained just as heavily segregated as they were under Jim Crow law, but instead this process operated through de facto segregation rather than de …show more content…
In this volume, there is an exploration of both Charlotte and Raleigh, analyzing outcomes due to the policy changes in school enrollment from 1989 to 2010. Both school systems are experiencing high levels of income and racial achievement gaps. In the Charlotte Mecklenburg district, the schools show that separate is not equal and that the lack of equity is impacting those students performance and opportunity for economic mobility in the future. Mickleson, Smith, and Nelson offer six steps that might help to restore Charlotte Mecklenburg back the system it once was during
The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. This monograph is important for my thesis research because, it explains how the white middle class that remained neutral in the discussion of race as it relates to integration. Lassiter provides a thorough regional analysis of school desegregation case studies in Atlanta and Charlotte. The color blind tactics of the “Silent Majority” undermined desegregation by instituting an slow integration plan change for a few high achieving black students. When this system came under fire from the federal courts in the late 1970s, Charlotte began bussing but then like Atlanta turned to a system of neighborhood schools to restore order, increasing “white flight” and residential segregation. The restoration of neighborhood schools remained just as heavily segregated as they were under Jim Crow law, but instead this process operated through de facto segregation rather than de …show more content…
In this volume, there is an exploration of both Charlotte and Raleigh, analyzing outcomes due to the policy changes in school enrollment from 1989 to 2010. Both school systems are experiencing high levels of income and racial achievement gaps. In the Charlotte Mecklenburg district, the schools show that separate is not equal and that the lack of equity is impacting those students performance and opportunity for economic mobility in the future. Mickleson, Smith, and Nelson offer six steps that might help to restore Charlotte Mecklenburg back the system it once was during