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NEW FOCUS FOR THE STUDY OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE: PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Title
A NEW FOCUS FOR THE STUDY OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE: PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION.
Creator
ATHOS, DEBORAH E., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this thesis was to test hypotheses associated with the "two-step flow of communication." The uniqueness of this study rests in the new type of issue used as a data base--public school desegregation. This study relied on a larger effort by Drs. Douglas S. Gatlin, Everett F. Cataldo, and Micheal W. Giles in which over 6,000 respondents from eight Florida counties were interviewed. The extremely narrow context of personal influence and the overwhelming importance of personal...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis was to test hypotheses associated with the "two-step flow of communication." The uniqueness of this study rests in the new type of issue used as a data base--public school desegregation. This study relied on a larger effort by Drs. Douglas S. Gatlin, Everett F. Cataldo, and Micheal W. Giles in which over 6,000 respondents from eight Florida counties were interviewed. The extremely narrow context of personal influence and the overwhelming importance of personal experiences in explaining why people change their minds suggest that successful community adjustment to integrated schooling will become a reality only through careful re-evaluation of existing desegregation policy.
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Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13657
Subject Headings
Segregation in education, Communication--Research
Format
Document (PDF)
Resegregation: the impact on education
Title
Resegregation: the impact on education.
Creator
King, Tameka L., Shockley, Robert, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description
This qualitative study examined the impact and implications of resegregation on students of color by capturing and analyzing the lived experiences of school principals leading high poverty and low poverty schools where resegregation was occurring. Despite the growing concern for resegregation, little has been down to reverse the adverse affects of this phenomenon. The body of research that has explored the essence of resegregation has in small volumes acknowledged the perception of school...
Show moreThis qualitative study examined the impact and implications of resegregation on students of color by capturing and analyzing the lived experiences of school principals leading high poverty and low poverty schools where resegregation was occurring. Despite the growing concern for resegregation, little has been down to reverse the adverse affects of this phenomenon. The body of research that has explored the essence of resegregation has in small volumes acknowledged the perception of school principals. A much clearer portrait of the impact resegregation was having on schools as perceived by school principals offered an in-depth understanding of the way in which policy and practices affect schools undergoing resegregation. Hence, this study used the hermeneutic phenomenological methodology in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding and meaning of the complex experiences of resegregation from the perspective of school principals. The data was explicated by using Hycner’s (1999) five step process. The findings and conclusion of this study were intended to inform policy alternatives and practices through aggregating collected and analyzed perspectives of school principals of high poverty and low poverty schools.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004129
Subject Headings
Children of minorities -- Education., Segregation in education -- Government policy., Racism in education.
Format
Document (PDF)
FIXING THE GAME: THE DESEGREGATION OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND THE CONTINUED FIGHT FOR EQUALITY
Title
FIXING THE GAME: THE DESEGREGATION OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND THE CONTINUED FIGHT FOR EQUALITY.
Creator
Link, Zachary, Norman, Sandra L., Florida Atlantic University, Department of History, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
College football has long served as an apparatus for advancing racial equality, but the process by which it did so has been muddled and oversimplified. Popular histories have often reduced college football’s desegregation down to a singular event, the 1970 USC-Alabama game. Although the game was significant in its own right, it contributed very little to the desegregation of college football. Instead, the USC-Bama game gained exposure due to prominence of the teams involved rather than its...
Show moreCollege football has long served as an apparatus for advancing racial equality, but the process by which it did so has been muddled and oversimplified. Popular histories have often reduced college football’s desegregation down to a singular event, the 1970 USC-Alabama game. Although the game was significant in its own right, it contributed very little to the desegregation of college football. Instead, the USC-Bama game gained exposure due to prominence of the teams involved rather than its historical significance. The game propagated numerous myths, including the idea that the South was not ready to desegregate until Alabama lost to the desegregated USC team. This was not only untrue, but it took away from the factual history of college football’s desegregation, a process that took nearly 100 years. The story of the USC-Bama game also detracted from college football’s ongoing process of integration and African American equality, as if black players were suddenly granted legal rights and were no longer discriminated against. My overarching argument is that college football, and America’s love for the sport, uniquely placed African American players in a position which forced the country to confront racial inequality in a way that few other outlets at the time did or could.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013825
Subject Headings
College football players, Segregation, Football--History, African American football players
Format
Document (PDF)
Interview with Bill Zern – ca. 2002
Title
Interview with Bill Zern – ca. 2002.
Creator
Zern, Bill (Interviewee), Wiseman, Maury (Interviewer)
Date Issued
2002-10-19
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78806
Subject Headings
Altoona (Pa.), United States Army, Great Depression, 1929-1939, World War, 1939-1945, West Palm Beach (Fla.), Lake Worth (Fla.), Segregation, Intergration, Racism --Florida --History, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Segregation --Florida
Format
Set of related objects
Interview with Hattie Mae Pompey – ca. 2004
Title
Interview with Hattie Mae Pompey – ca. 2004.
Creator
Pompey, Hattie Ruth (Interviewee), Stein, Nancy (Interviewer)
Date Issued
2004-02-19, 2004-02-19
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT72814
Subject Headings
Delray Beach (Fla.), African American, Carver High School, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Florida --Race relations, African Americans --Segregation --Florida --History --20th century
Format
Set of related objects
Soil of misfortune: Education, poverty, and race in a rural south Florida community
Title
Soil of misfortune: Education, poverty, and race in a rural south Florida community.
Creator
Gonzalez, Juan Carlos., Florida Atlantic University, Kirsch, Max H.
Abstract/Description
This dissertation addresses the structural components of education in the United States and how they have hindered the ability of a community's black and brown children to obtain the knowledge and resources needed to succeed and adapt to the changing circumstances of their region and beyond. It will do so through a case study of a small community in the American South, where the failure of education to provide access to the American dream has been clearly demonstrated in persistent poverty...
Show moreThis dissertation addresses the structural components of education in the United States and how they have hindered the ability of a community's black and brown children to obtain the knowledge and resources needed to succeed and adapt to the changing circumstances of their region and beyond. It will do so through a case study of a small community in the American South, where the failure of education to provide access to the American dream has been clearly demonstrated in persistent poverty and lack of opportunity available to its residents. Belle Glade, Florida is a rural community centrally located within the Everglades Agricultural Area. Fifty years after the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board decision, which outlawed school segregation and the separate but equal claims of Plessy vs. Ferguson, little has changed in this poor rural community. This study shows that this community, rather than representing an isolated case, is reflective of many small non-metro communities of the American South. Though integration initially intended to balance the great disparity that existed between the schools for black children and schools for white children in regards to facilities, materials, and curriculum, in Belle Glade and throughout the South those same disparities still exist today. This study argues that current state education policies, modeled after the federal government's "No Child Left Behind Plan," are a veneer for a separate and unequal educational policy and practice in the state of Florida. It seeks to explore and document why this has occurred, and place this case study within the larger context of structural inequalities on the local, national and global levels. How is it that the "freest nation in the world" with the largest gross national product has yet to fulfill its most fundamental promise to this community---equal opportunity and access to quality education? Thus, this dissertation asks why regardless of the policies, plans, curricula and tests the district and state adopt, at times with the best of intentions, nothing seems to improve the conditions of these black citizens? More importantly, when these issues are addressed, who speaks, under what conditions and for whom?
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Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12161
Subject Headings
Social capital (Sociology)--United States, Segregation in education--Florida--Belle Glade, African Americans--Education--History--20th century, Educational change--Florida--Belle Glade, Race relations in school management--Florida, Discrimination in education--Florida
Format
Document (PDF)