John A. Hardin is associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University.
"A story which demonstrates the range of human behavior -- the
good, the bad, and the ugly." -- Bowling Green Daily News
"A valuable contribution to the growing number of studies of the
modern civil rights movement in the South." -- Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society
"A well-researched volume documenting the progress of historically
black colleges and universities in the state and the struggle to
reintegrate Kentucky's colleges and universities." -- Journal of
Blacks in Higher Education
"As the first book-length treatment of this topic, Hardin's work
will prove a valuable resource to both scholars and the general
reading public." -- Filson Club Historical Quarterly
"Chronicles 'genteel or polite racism' backed by the Day Law of
1904, which mandated only segregated education throughout the
state." -- Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society
"Convincingly documents the ways in which Kentucky's white
politicians kept black colleges starved for cash, hoarded funds for
black over white schools, refused to make any meaningful attempt to
establish black graduate schools, and resisted black attempts to
challenge either such inequities or the segregated educational
system itself." -- Journal of Southern History
"Hardin achieved his objective, the explanation of the fall of Jim
Crow higher education in Kentucky." -- Journal of American
History
"Hardin has presented a first-rate monograph on black higher
education in Kentucky between 1904 and 1954." -- North Carolina
Historical Review
"Hardin places his work in the context of national and regional
trends.... Kentucky provides an opportunity to study courses not
taken and gives us a case study of a place where different options
were possible." -- Thaddeus Smith, Middle Tennessee State
University
"Of particular interest is the author's recounting of the conflict
in the early years of the 20th century over the form and content of
higher education for blacks." -- Choice
"Provides a fine case study that will interest anyone concerned
with the historical relationship between racism and education or in
the Bluegrass State." -- Ohio Valley History
"The politics, policies, events and personalities are not presented
in a vacuum, but are interpreted, with great effectiveness, in
relation to larger state and national issues." -- Lexington Herald
Leader
"This book contributes significantly to the history of black higher
education in Kentucky and throughout the nation." -- Florida
Historical Quarterly
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