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When faced by the Court-ordered all deliberate speed time frame for school desegregation, a fearful Houston school board member urged the city to make haste slowly, in order for the school system to receive decisions based on sound judgment and discretion. Houston, Texas, had what may have been the largest racially segregated Jim Crow public school system in the United States when the Supreme Court declared the practice unconstitutional in 1954. Ultimately, helped by members of its business community, Houston did desegregate its public schools and did so peacefully, without making the city a battleground of racial violence. In Make Haste Slowly, William Henry Kellar provides the first extensive examination of the development of Houstons racially segregated public school system, the long fight for school desegregation, and the roles played by various community groups, including the HISD Board of Education, in one of the most significant stories of the civil rights era. Drawing on archival records, HISD School Board minutes, interviews with participants in the process, the oral history collection of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, and a variety of other sources, Kellar cons

Author

Kellar, William Henry, 1952-

Publisher

Texas A & M University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585369631

Subjects

History, Education