Ravenswood High School and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Sequoia Union High School District - A Dissertation

Robert Lowe

Document Work

Ravenswood High School and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Sequoia Union High School District - A Dissertation

Public Deposited

db_workflow_actions_widget:

db_representative_media_2:

Download PDF

db_citations:

db_social_media:

db_work_description:

Full text of Robert Lowe's PhD dissertation on the desegregation of Sequoia Union High School District and Ravenswood High School submitted to Stanford University. The dissertation features 9 chapters: (1) setting the stage for segregation: the founding of Ravenswood High School; (2) conflicts over desegregation, 1960-1966; (3) black power in the Sequoia District, part I: the rise of self-activity; (4) black power in the Sequoia District, part II: toward separate and equal; (5) the decision to desegregate the Sequoia District; (6) the attainment of voluntary desegregation; (7) the experience of black students under voluntary desegregation, 1971-1975' (8) the ambiguous achievement of permanent desegregation: the closing of Ravenswood High School; (9) the irony of recent school reform.

db_metadata:

Last modified