- Title:
- An imperfect revolution : voices from the desegregation era / by Kate Ellis and Catherine Winter
- Creator:
- Ellis, Kate
- Contributor to Resource:
- Winters, Catherine
American RadioWorks
National Endowment for the Humanities - Date of Original:
- 2007
- Subject:
- Segregation in education--North Carolina--Charlotte
Busing for school integration--Law and legislation--North Carolina--Charlotte
Busing for school integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
School integration--North Carolina--Charlotte
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Charlotte
Race relations
De facto school segregation--North Carolina--Charlotte
School children--North Carolina--Charlotte
African American school children--North Carolina--Charlotte
African American teachers--North Carolina
Segregation in education--Kentucky--Louisville
Busing for school integration--Law and legislation--Kentucky--Louisville
Busing for school integration--Kentucky--Louisville
School integration--Kentucky--Louisville
Race discrimination--Kentucky--Louisville
De facto school segregation--Kentucky--Louisville
African American school children--Kentucky--Louisville
Louisville (Ky.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Charlotte (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) - People:
- Counts, Dorothy Geraldine
- Location:
- United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313 - Medium:
- instructional materials
oral histories (literary works)
transcripts
timelines (chronologies)
photographs
sound recordings
documentaries and factual works - Type:
- Collection
- Description:
- Web site companion to a radio documentary of the same name produced by American Radio Works. The site contains an audio file of the radio documentary, a transcript of the program, and essays on how school desegregation happened and on the effects of integration. It also contains recollections of students, parents, and teachers from Louisville, Kentucky, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/deseg/
- Contributing Institution:
- American Public Media
- Rights:
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