Peter Wallenstein, professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is the author of Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History and Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law — An American History.
"Broadens the discussion of the civil rights movement to include
academic spaces as sites of struggle and contributes to southern
history by providing unique accounts of black agency during the
dismantling of the Jim Crow South."
"The first comprehensive study of the process of desegregation as
it unfolded during the twentieth century at the flagship
universities and white land-grant institutions of the south."
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