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Along Freedom Road : Hyde County, North title: Carolina and the Fate of Black Schools in the South author: Cecelski, David S. publisher: University of North Carolina Press isbn10 | asin: 0807821268 print isbn13: 9780807821268 ebook isbn13: 9780807860731 language: English Segregation in education--North Carolina-- Hyde County--Case studies, School closings--North Carolina--Hyde County-- subject Case studies, African Americans-- Education--North Carolina--Hyde County-- Case studies. publication date: 1994 lcc: LC212.522.N8C43 1994eb ddc: 370.19/344/09756184 Segregation in education--North Carolina-- Hyde County--Case studies, School closings--North Carolina--Hyde County-- subject: Case studies, African Americans-- Education--North Carolina--Hyde County-- Case studies. Along Freedom Road Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South David S. Cecelski The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill & London © 1994 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Historian David S. Cecelski is a research fellow at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cecelski, David S. Along freedom road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the fate of Black schools in the South / by David S. Cecelski. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8078-2126-8 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4437-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Segregation in educationNorth CarolinaHyde CountyCase studies. 2. School closingsNorth CarolinaHyde CountyCase studies. 3. Afro-Americans EducationNorth CarolinaHyde County Case studies. I. Title. LC212.522.N8C43 1994 370.19'344'09756184-dc20 93-32687 CIP 98 97 5 4 3 2 To Laura Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 7 Prologue, 1954-1964 17 Chapter 1 31 White Folks' Ways Chapter 2 59 Tired of Having to Bear the Burdens Chapter 3 83 Once in Our Lifetimes Chapter 4 105 Another Birmingham? Chapter 5 127 The Marches to Raleigh Chapter 6 145 The Hour of Harvest Epilogue 163 Notes 175 Bibliography 207 Index 225 Page ix Illustration Maps Map 1. Hyde County, North Carolina 2 Map 2. Pamlico Sound Vicinity 4 Map 3. Principal Sites of Ku Klux Klan 38 Activism,First Congressional District, Summer of 1966 Photographs Downtown Fairfield, 1918 18 Draining Lake Mattamuskeet 20 Hyde County Training School 62 Prof. O. A. Peay Crowns May Queen 63 Hyde County Training School Faculty 66 Job's Chapel Baptist Church 90 Swan Quarter Protest 93 Police Escort Protesters to Hyde County Jail108 Protest March from Job's Corner 110 The Reverend Ralph Abernathy 117 Marchers Enter Belhaven 134 The March on Raleigh 136 SCLC Leaders in Raleigh 137 "Save Black Schools in Hyde" 140 The Student Planning Committee 160 Page xi Acknowledgments I have many friends and colleagues to thank for making this a better book. During my student days at Harvard, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Courtney Cazden, and Michael Fultz reviewed my first drafts and offered crucial encouragement and criticism. Later, on my return to North Carolina, George Noblit, Cynthia Brown, Christina Greene, and Greg Field contributed thoughtful, informed readings. At every stage, Maruja Garcia Padilla provided sharp insights into Hyde County events and my relationship to them. Beyond my gratitude for their rigorous remarks on the manuscript, I owe an added debt to Emilie V. Siddle Walker at Emory University and Tim Tyson at Duke University. Professor Siddle Walker generously shared with me the early fruits of her pioneering research on African American schools in the segregated South. Likewise, Tim Tyson improved the book immeasurably by sharing his extensive knowledge of civil rights history in North Carolina. I thank Alex Charns, Wilma Dunaway, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Jim Lee, Gerald Wilson, George Esser, Page McCullough, and Leslie McClemore for helping me clear difficult research hurdles. My editor at the University of North Carolina Press, David Perry, and the outside readers of my manuscript gave both strong encouragement and useful substantive advice, for which I am very grateful. I would also like to acknowledge the Ford Foundation, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies for their financial support. In eastern North Carolina, I would like to thank several individuals whose hospitality, friendship, and insights have been indispensable to writing this book. Ida Murray, Henry Johnson, Jr., Thomas Whitaker, Julia Bick, and Greg Zeph made me feel at home in Hyde County and
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