A Campaign of Quiet Persuasion
How the College Board Desegregated SAT® Test Centers in the Deep South, 1960-1965
In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the Deep South. Traveling from state to state, taking one school district and even one school at a time, two College Board staff members, both native southerners, waged a campaign of quiet persuasion and succeeded, establishing a roster of desegregated test centers within segregated school districts while the historic battle for civil rights raged around them. In t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-5273-7
- EAN: 9780807152737
- Produktnummer: 27860765
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'694 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 halftones
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Jan Bates Wheeler
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