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A paper which looks analytically at Cecelski's account of the Hyde County protest against desegregation, in the context of education reform and the establishment and maintenance of a black cultural identity in the South during the period of the civil rights movement. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the struggle within the black community for equal rights in general, but also sets the civil rights movement in a historical context which gives an analytical perspective on the impact
of the education system in particular on black issues. He addresses, for example, the complexities involved in the desegregation movement, unravelling the relationship between black identity and the establishment and
maintenance of black centres of education: this in itself provides an interesting counterpoint to the widely-held belief that all black people were in favour of desegregation on the grounds that
it was inextricably linked to the issue of equal opportunities.
There is a great deal of historical and sociological analysis extant which works from the perspective of breaking down ethnic and racial barriers, through the phasing-out of segregation within
the education system; however, Cecelski looks at the issue from a less narrow viewpoint since those in North Carolina community which he describes were staunchly opposed to the closure of
black schools in their area, and firmly resisted moves to desegregate. He emphasises, therefore, the gradually-emerging autonomy of the black community, in the sense that they were committed to maintaining
those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultural ideology rather than that which had been imposed by the
white majority culture. The focus was on the resilience and
resourcefulness of black people themselves, rather than on the benevolence and patronage of the dominant culture: in many ways, moves to desegregate could be seen as reflecting the latter attitude,
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