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Keeping the Struggle Alive: Studying Desegregation in Our Town, A Guide to Doing Oral History » (1st Edition)

Authors: Bernadette Anand, Michelle Fine, David S. Surrey
ISBN-13: 9780807741450, ISBN-10: 0807741450
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Re-Examining History with Middle School Students	1
	"You Can't Give Up the Power of the Struggle": An Oral History of School Desegregation by America's Youth	13
	A Brief Legal Background Leading to Desegregation	14
	A Brief History of Segregation in Montclair	18
	The Struggle to Integrate Montclair	22
	Segregation in the Schools in Montclair	27
	The Fight for Desegregation in the Schools	32
	And Today...	57
	Montclair Wrong for Too Long: The Youth Researchers Speak	58
	A Teacher's Guide to the Oral History Project	63
	How the Project Began	63
	The Class Meetings	64
	Acknowledgments	73
	Student Contributors	75
	References	77
	Index	79
	About the Authors	81