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Paperback / softback. New. In the pre-Civil War and Civil War periods the Illinois black code deprived blacks of suffrage and court rights, and the Illinois Free Schools Act kept most black children out of public schooling. But, as McCaul documents, they did not sit idly by. They applied the concepts of "bargaining power" (rewarding, punishing, and dialectical) and the American ideal of "community" to participate in winning two major victories during this era. By the use of dialectical power, exerted mainly via John Jones' tract, The Black Laws of Illinois, they helped secure the repeal of the state's black code; by means of punishing power, mainly through boycotts and ''invasions, '' they exerted pressures that brought a cancellation of the Chicago public school policy of racial segregation. McCaul makes clear that the blacks' struggle for school rights is but one of a number of such struggles waged by disadvantaged groups (women,…
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The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois Paperback - 2009
by Robert L. McCaul
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- Title The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois
- Author Robert L. McCaul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
- Date 2009-03
- ISBN 9780809329052 / 0809329050
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
- Reading level 1620
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- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Education
- Dewey Decimal Code 370
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