Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South New Edition

"A superb piece of scholarship. . . . Must reading for any student wishing to fully understand the legacy of the "Brown" case.

"Journal of Southern History"

"Along Freedom Road" is a book that should be read by anyone interested in civil rights, schooling, and southern history.

"History of Education Quarterly"

"""A superb piece of scholarship. . . . Must reading for any student wishing to fully understand the legacy of the "Brown" case.

"Journal of Southern History""

""Along Freedom Road" is a book that should be read by anyone interested in civil rights, schooling, and southern history.

"History of Education Quarterly""

A well-written analysis of a neglected feature of the civil rights movement in the South.

"North Carolina Historical Review"

Cecelski makes his case with clarity and fairness.

"Progressive"

Such original scholarship when 'school choice' is a current issue bears serious contemplation.

"Booklist"

David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests daily for five months, marched twice on the state capitol in Raleigh, and drive the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in a massive gunfight.