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Before The Corridor Of Shame: The African American Fight For Equal Education After Jim Crow, Luci Vaden
Before The Corridor Of Shame: The African American Fight For Equal Education After Jim Crow, Luci Vaden
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"Before the Corridor of Shame: The African American Fight for Equal Education After Jim Crow" analyzes how African American public school students in South Carolina used direct action protest to demand the implementation of quality, desegregated public education in the 1970s. Students built off of the legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which empowered the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to withhold federal funds from school districts that practiced overt segregation and became the mechanism by which the federal government could force states to desegregate. As a result, most South Carolina schools desegregated by 1970 and …