Southern Regional Council Appalachian Desegregation Survey Records 1953-1954.

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Southern Regional Council Appalachian Desegregation Survey Records 1953-1954.

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Correspondence, notes, and reports relating to a 1954 attitudes survey conducted by Berea College economics professor Robert G. Menefee, in which he explored the impact of the Supreme Court's Brown decision that outlawed racial segregation in the nation's schools.

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Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Southern Regional Council

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The Help Our Public Education (HOPE) project was established in 1958 by a group of community leaders and concerned citizens to disseminate information regarding school integration in Georgia. After the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision of 1954, HOPE anticipated that many of Georgia's public schools would close, because the state would refuse to comply. HOPE believed an informed public would take the necessary action through elected representatives to keep Georgia's public schools ope...

Menefee, Robert G.

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Menefee spent the summer of 1954 traveling extensively in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, interviewing 218 people from 51 different communities in 29 Appalachian counties. A report of his work entitled "The Supreme Court Decision and the Appalachian South" was published in The New South, Volume 9, Number 10, (October, 1954.). From the description of Southern Regional Council Appalachian Desegregation Survey Records 1953-1954. (Berea College). WorldCat record id: 51968812 ...