Oh, Do I Remember!: Experiences of Teachers During the Desegregation of Austin's Schools, 1964-1971(SUNY series, Theory, Research, and Practice in Social Education)

The story of one city's experience with school desegregation, as seen through the eyes of the teachers who lived it.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Finding the Pieces Visions Change 2. Social Construction of Race Dred Scott: Seeking the Right to be Free "Glorious Lost Causes": Civil War and Reconstruction One Drop of Black Blood: Separate Rail Cars First Class War and Second Class Citizenship Flaming Crosses: White Robes and Protestant Fundamentalist Justice Peeking Over the Color Line Othering: New and Different Definitions 3. Oh, I Do Remember! Separate but Equal Testing the System A Flawed and Failed School Desegregation Plan 4. Moving from the Shadows into the Sunlight Setting the Stage for Brown The End of Jim Crow: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka School Desegregation Begins in Texas Desegregation is Imminent for the Capital City 5. With All Deliberate Slowness The Enormous Responsibility The Fall of 1966 Across Town at Johnston Teaching Black History Education for Democratic Citizenship Whatever Steps Necessary 6. No White Missionaries Need Apply White is the Color of My Skin Anderson Welcomes New Teachers A Roller Coaster Time On the Opposite Side of Town 7. Death of a School Historical Background Anderson High School: A Meeting Place Foreshadowing the Closure Death of a School Loss of Community 8. Reflections and Memories White Flight: Leaving Austin's Core White Schools and the Culture of Integration The Stalemate 9. Creating Places of Engaged Listening Structures and Words of Segregation Citing Different Histories and Conveying Different Meanings Grass Once Marking a High School Desegregated Schools: Who Lost? Chapter Endnotes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Anna Victoria Wilson is Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at North Carolina State University. William E. Segall is Professor of Social Foundations at Oklahoma State University. They also coauthored Introduction to Education: Teaching in a Diverse Society.

Review :
"Wilson and Segall offer a clear picture of how Black teachers' situations and reactions differed from those of White teachers even when both groups agreed on the value of racial desegregation. Furthermore, they illustrate the job of teaching as well as the ways teachers responded to a national reform." - Joseph Watras, University of Dayton