FOR THE BENEFIT OF THESE CHILDREN: AFFIRMING RACIAL IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1954-1974

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dc.contributor.advisorMuncy, Robyn L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMatthews, Avis Danetteen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-25T06:35:47Z
dc.date.available2018-01-25T06:35:47Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThis history examines attitudes toward and responses to school desegregation within an established, closely knit network of African-American communities in Prince George's County, Maryland, from 1954, immediately after Brown v. Board of Education, through the first year of the destabilizing busing era. Optimistic about the opportunities and social equality desegregated schooling might afford their children, black residents of this county nonetheless recognized the value of segregated schooling in securing a general sense of well being within both their children and their communities. Thus, for two decades they approached school desegregation with expectation and ambivalence, asserting collective agency to influence the school board's decision making, prevent the closing of black schools, and affirm their racial and cultural identity.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2H41JP2M
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/20444
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAfrican American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBlack historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBrown v. Board of Educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcolored schoolsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddesegregationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollededucation of blacksen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPrince George's Countyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMarylanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledschool desegregationen_US
dc.titleFOR THE BENEFIT OF THESE CHILDREN: AFFIRMING RACIAL IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1954-1974en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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