In 1975; Florida's Escambia County and the city of Pensacola experienced a pernicious chain of events. A sheriff's deputy killed a young black man at point-blank range. Months of protests against police brutality followed; culminating in the arrest and conviction of the Reverend H. K. Matthews; the leading civil rights organizer in the county. Viewing the events of Escambia County within the context of the broader civil rights movement; J. Michael Butler demonstrates that while activism of the previous decade destroyed most visible and dramatic signs of racial segregation; institutionalized forms of cultural racism still persisted. In Florida; white leaders insisted that because blacks obtained legislative victories in the 1960s; African Americans could no longer claim that racism existed; even while public schools displayed Confederate imagery and allegations of police brutality against black citizens multiplied. Offering a new perspective on the literature of the black freedom struggle; Beyond Integration reveals how with each legal step taken toward racial equality; notions of black inferiority became more entrenched; reminding us just how deeply racism remained--and still remains--in our society.
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Review
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Tough Read but extremely informativeBy Brian D. FerreroTermination and Indian Assimilation is the focus of this book and Rosenthal makes it clear that moving into the cities wasn't always an encouraged form of escape. Although the boarding schools that began to pull youthful Indians off reservations were instilling domesticated American value; the loss and disconnection of Indian life and culture seem to play a huge role in the Indian transition and acculturation . Constantly kept in the under-belly of labor and society; assimilation became in an experience in poverty and destitution where very few Indians were able to prosper in American society. Rosenthal details the types of work and opportunities provided by city life and outlines those who were successful and those who were not. This book also provides an insight to specific programs that enabled Indians to navigate through a brand-new way of life; much of which was guided by the BIA.
