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Book SynopsisFrom their inception in the late nineteenth century, the school systems of Gainesville City and Hall County, Georgia provided unequal education for white and African American children. This book recounts the desegregation process in Gainesville. Gains, as well as losses, by African Americans are analyzed through artifacts and interviews with those who were involved. A thorough study of the history of Gainesville and Hall County Schools, particularly E.E. Butler High School, as a microcosm of the effects of African American school closings in the 1960s and 1970s, will lead to a greater understanding of the African American experience in the desegregation of American public schools.
Trade ReviewA Victory of Sorts does offer to scholars and laypeople an important glimpse into the contradictory ways in which one African-American community experienced desegregation. And since this is an area of desegregation lecture that has not yet received sufficient attention, A Victory of Sorts will be a welcome addition… -- Phoebe Christina Godfrey, Texas A&M and International University * History of Education Quarterly *
Pitts is to be thanked for bringing us face to face with the…[dilemmas of the school segregation crises], so badly needed now, and in the future, to make 1954 more than a numerical milestone. -- Millicent Ellison Brown, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University * Georgia Historical Quarterly *
A Victory of Sorts is well written with copious notes and a wide range of sources, both oral and written, local, and national. The book is a fine example of local history at its best. -- John Crowley, Valdosta State University * Journal of Southern History *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Unequal from the Start Chapter 4 The Southern Way of Life Chapter 5 We Negroes Have Caught Enough Chapter 6 E.E. Butler High School Chapter 7 They Took Away Our Pride and Joy Chapter 8 Epilogue Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index
