Black education in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1939-1966

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dc.contributor.authorMartin, Tracy A.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:45:57Zen
dc.date.adate2008-09-18en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:45:57Zen
dc.date.issued1996en
dc.date.rdate2008-09-18en
dc.date.sdate2008-09-18en
dc.description.abstractBlack education was unique in Montgomery County, Virginia, during Jim Crow segregation because African American students were able to attend Christiansburg Institute (C.I.), a black secondary school with an excellent reputation. C.I. initially emphasized vocational education, but in the late 1940s administrators expanded the curriculum to include a college preparatory program. C.I. nurtured black activism and culture. Because it was a regional school, it facilitated the development of an extended black community. Blacks organized first for equalization within segregated schools, and then they challenged segregation itself. After the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), white Virginians resisted desegregation. White Montgomery County residents were committed to segregation, yet they were unwilling to commit to Virginia's "massive resistanceā€ to integration. Desegregation came quietly and relatively quickly to Montgomery County due to bi-racial cooperation, a comparatively small black population, and the growth of the state university located in the county. Once integration was complete in 1966, the county closed C.I. White Virginians, especially those in eastern Virginia, fought so hard to avoid desegregation; yet in Montgomery County it was black residents who paid the highest price for integration -- their school. An institution that held high expectations for its graduates, while providing them with the tools to succeed in a segregated world, is now gone. This thesis explores the costs, the benefits, and the process of desegregation in one predominantly white county in western Virginia.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentviii, 186 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-09182008-063206en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09182008-063206/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44796en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1996.M376.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 35089306en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1996.M376en
dc.subject.lcshRace discrimination -- Virginia -- Montgomery County -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshSegregation in education -- Virginia -- Montgomery County -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshRace discrimination -- Virginia -- Christiansburg -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshRace discriminationen
dc.subject.lcshSegregation in education -- Virginia -- Christiansburg -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshAfrican Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Montgomery County -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshSegregationen
dc.subject.lcshAfrican Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Christiansburg -- Historyen
dc.titleBlack education in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1939-1966en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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