Injustice sheltered: Race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962

This is a case study of the history of race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign Urbana from the World War II era to the early 1960s. It tells the story of racial injustice perpetuated within this town-and-gown community and how those who were disconcerted with it struggled, resisted, challenged, and changed aspects of this system. Playing host to major overlapping institutional spheres and linked together in fundamental ideological, economical, political, and social ways, Jim Crow was manifest in blatant and institutionalized ways, teetering dangerously on the imaginary Mason-Dixon line, taking on characteristics of Southern and Northern racism. Just as Jim Crow was both overt and covert in real life, so, too, was the evidence as to its existence. Many rich archival sources were openly-shelved and logically-labeled; many, however, were housed under obscure titles, and it was by chance and much reading that they were discovered.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Franke, Carrie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Violas, Paul C.

• History, Black
• Education, History of
• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Education, Higher

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Franke, Carrie

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9114239
(UMI)AAI9114239

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21117