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School integration -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History.

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Southern Regional Council Appalachian Desegregation Survey Records

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Identifier: BCA 0055 SAA 055
Abstract In 1954 the Southern Regional Council (SRC) contacted Berea College professor of sociology Roscoe Giffin proposing that he survey attitudes in southern Appalachia about the U. S. Supreme Court's recent desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.  Giffin declined; however, he recommended a Berea colleague in the Economics and Business department, Robert Menefee for the work.  Giffin's recommendation was accepted, and Menefee was...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953-1954