Aiming to fill a scholarly void in the dominant American civil rights historiography, as well as in the history of the white South’s massive resistance, this article sheds light on a virtually overlooked, but nevertheless significant, school desegregation crisis that engulfed the small rural community of Mansfield, Texas, in the wake of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown ruling. All too often, the general narrative of the civil rights movement has focused on black southerners’ struggles to desegregate public schools and public accommodations waged in the Deep South states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and it has, whether intended or not, resulted in drawing much needed attention away from the similar endeavors that occurred in the Peripheral South states during the civil rights years. In this respect, Texas, as one of those Peripheral South states, and what happened at Mansfield High School in the late summer of 1956 were no exceptions. Although history attests that the efforts to desegregate Mansfield High School came to naught in the end and that the school remained racially segregated for nine more years until 1965—and thus, the whole civil rights episode seems to have been relegated to a historical footnote—the 1956 Mansfield incident in fact served as a crucial, albeit little-known and unhailed, precursor to the well-documented Central High School desegregation ordeal in Little Rock, Arkansas, that happened only a year later. This was then followed by the proliferation of similar school desegregation crises in the Deep South states during the early 1960s.
内容記述
論文
Articles
雑誌名
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies
ページ
111 - 127
発行年
2020-03
ISSN
13462989
書誌レコードID
AA11562201
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
出版者別名
Center for Pacific and American Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, The University of Tokyo
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星条旗が校庭から消えた日 : 1956年アメリカ南部テキサス州マンスフィールド高校人種統合事件
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