Those interested in Texas history and African American history will find this book essential to understanding one of the most reactionary periods in American history. Make Haste Slowly fills a longtime void in the literature on the civil rights era in Texas. GRAN CANARIA (Paulo Kennedys View from Downunder) - It is Augustus Caesar who is attributed with the timeless quote Hasten slowly.It was reportedly the Tibetan poet Milarepa who expanded that to Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. Kellar concludes that forty years after the Brown decision, many of the aspirations that landmark ruling inspired have proven elusive, but the impact of the ruling on Houston has changed the face of that city and the nature of its public education dramatically and in unanticipated ways. Houstonians shifted from a strategy “massive resistance” to one of “massive retreat.” White flight and resegregation transformed both the community and its public schools. A former Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority (MHA), Professor Akwasi Osei has urged the government to hasten slowly on the legal cultivation of cannabis in large quantities. Kellar shows that, while Houston desegregated its public school system peacefully, the limited integration that originally occurred served only to delay equal access to HISD schools. Drawing on archival records, HISD School Board minutes, interviews with participants in the process, the oral history collection of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, and a variety of other sources, Kellar constructs a detailed account of the development of Houston’s segregated public school system and the struggle of Houston’s African American community against the oppression of racial discrimination in the city. In Make Haste Slowly, William Henry Kellar provides the first extensive examination of the development of Houston’s racially segregated public school system, the long fight for school desegregation, and the roles played by various community groups, including the HISD Board of Education, in one of the most significant stories of the civil rights era. Ultimately, helped by members of its business community, Houston did desegregate its public schools and did so peacefully, without making the city a battleground of racial violence. Houston, Texas, had what may have been the largest racially segregated “Jim Crow” public school system in the United States when the Supreme Court declared the practice unconstitutional in 1954. Through his own intimate stories, he tells of the key moments in his extraordinary life. It is an inspiring tale of a remarkable individual. She is well-known for her pioneering welfare and women’s rights work, for founding the Coterie of Social Workers, and organising both regionally and nationally for better social. HASTEN SLOWLY is a documentary film on the life of Sir Laurens van der Post. Audrey Jeffers was the first woman elected to the Port of Spain Town (City) Council in 1936. When faced by the Court-ordered “all deliberate speed” time frame for school desegregation, a fearful Houston school board member urged the city to “make haste slowly,” in order for the school system to receive decisions based on sound judgment and discretion. WE MUST hasten slowly, were the words of Audrey Jeffers in 1948.
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