The Price They Paid: Desegregation in an African American Community Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	William Hooper Councill: Address to the White People of Alabama	17
2	Status of Negro Education in Alabama: Actions to Take	28
	That Education Is Important and Necessary, No One Will Deny	30
	The Teaching Force in This State Is Entirely Too Small	32
	There Are Practically No Negro Public High Schools in Alabama	33
	There is Entirely Too Little Attention Given to College Education in Alabama for the Negro	34
3	Concentration on Public High Schools in the South: What We Are Doing in Tuscumbia	40
4	Leadership Opportunities for African American Children in the School and the Community	51
	Leadership Development Through Extracurricular Activities	53
	George Washington Carver Slept Here	57
5	Family and Community Influences in the Lives of School-Age Children	66
	A Place Where You Felt Like a Member of a Family	66
	A Community of Educators: Teachers, Family Members, and Others	69
6	The Unmet Promises of School Desegregation	73
	Inequality Before Desegregation	73
	After Desegregation	77
7	A Virus in the Folklore: Skin Color and Student Preference	80
	The Discrimination Virus	80
	Discrimination in the African American Community	81
	Discrimination at the Desegregated High School	84
8	The Myth of the Unusual Negro	87
	Some "Unusual" Negroes	87
	Have Things Changed?	90
9	Conclusion: Lessons Learned About Schooling from the 20th Century	94
	American Schools at the Close of the 20th Century	94
	Challenges and Opportunities for American Schools in the 21st Century	95
	Work Yet to Be Done	105
	References	111
	Index	119
	About the Authors	129