This book examines the history of 20th century racial segregation in Kentucky higher education, the last state in the South to enact legislation banning interra
You name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper articl
Kentucky was the last state in the South to introduce racially segregated schools and one of the first to break down racial barriers in higher education. The pa
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years la
An anthology of previously uncollected essays, originally published in "The New Yorker," reflects the work of the eminent journalist's early career and traces h