From Defiance to Deficit: How College Desegregation Influenced Educational Policy

Lecturer

Annie Mendenhall, Georgia Southern University, College of Arts and HumanitiesFollow

Media Type

Audio

Date of Lecture

9-15-2021

Description of Lecture

In 1969, investigators from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare visited Armstrong State College to report on the state of its desegregation activities. For two decades afterward, Armstrong, nearby Savannah State College, and the entire University System of Georgia were part of a national effort to enforce postsecondary desegregation across the South amidst the tumultuous political and legal shifts on the issue of desegregation. This presentation will describe the history of postsecondary desegregation enforcement, focusing on how desegregation plans in Georgia and other states influenced educational policies on remediation, retention, and educational access.

Recommended Citation

Mendenhall, Annie, "From Defiance to Deficit: How College Desegregation Influenced Educational Policy" (2021). Robert Ingram Strozier Lecture Series (1993-present). 75.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/strozier-lecture-series/75

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