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Beyond Blue And White: University Of Kentucky Presidents And Desegregation, 1941-1987, Mark W. Russell
Beyond Blue And White: University Of Kentucky Presidents And Desegregation, 1941-1987, Mark W. Russell
Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
This dissertation fills a gap in the historiography of southern higher education by focusing on five university presidents and their role in the desegregation of a non-elite flagship university in the Upper South. While historian Melissa Keane has studied the presidential role at elite private southern universities during the initial phase of the desegregation process, no study has yet examined desegregation from the president’s office at a southern land-grant university. Building upon historian Peter Wallenstein’s thesis that desegregation is not a single event in an institution’s history but rather an ongoing process, I argue that it was also process that …
The University Of Kentucky's Freshman Summer Program, Geoffrey L. Griggs
The University Of Kentucky's Freshman Summer Program, Geoffrey L. Griggs
MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects
The substantial growth in the University of Kentucky’s African American population since its integration in 1948 by Lyman T. Johnson and difficulties some of these students had succeeding at UK has resulted in increased spending by the university to improve retention. Programs, departments, and scholarships have been implemented to get those of African American descent to not only attend the University of Kentucky, but to leave with a degree. While this has been a pivotal issue here in Lexington as the city has hidden behind the shadow overcast which attempts to cover up the deep racial history marked in the …