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Black, White, and Southern
Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present
by David Goldfield
364 Pages, Published 1991 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-5405-2, ISBN: 0-8071-5405-9
"Whereas one out of four southern white adults had a high-school education in
1940, only 5 percent of black adults in the South had obtained their diplomas.
Myrdal was most appalled at the lack of basic knowledge among the students—“
No one could tell who was President of the ... in an off-the-cuff manner, school
officials designed curricula for blacks that reinforced their place in southern
society."
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