Robert A Pratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 692098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Pratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pratt |
| SIGNATURE | PRATT R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selma's Bloody Sunday
"One can point to more than a few 'critical moments' in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Even so, few incidents so starkly etched the just-treatment claims of the struggle and the raw brutality of the forces arrayed against its protagonists as did the attempted marches from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, Alabama, in the spring of 1965. ... In March of that year the full force of the state of Alabama--state troopers with nightsti…
Brian J. Daugherity. Keep On Keeping On
The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, declaring that segregation in public education was unconstitutional, was the culmination of a twenty-year effort begun in the mid-1930s by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). But for all intents and purposes, the Brown decision did not mean an end to school segregation; throughout most of the South, the decision meant a decl…
Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Breaking the Color Barrier
Breaking the Color Barrier examines both the persistent efforts of African Americans to desegregate the United States Naval Academy and the stifling, racist environment that black midshipmen encountered for most of this century. Beginning in 1872 with James Henry Conyers, the first black midshipman to be appointed to the academy, every African American midshipman from then until World War II would have to endure a torrent of racial abuse and ince…
We Shall Not Be Moved
In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply - in reality, a bribe - from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. Ward, outraged at the unfairness of the proposition and determined to end this unequal treatment, sued …
Brown v. Board of Education
Journal Article Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. Ed. by Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Boston: Bedford, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-12811-8.) Get access Robert A. Pratt Robert A. Pratt University of Georgia Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 846–847, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567177 Published: 0…
Race, Law, and Culture
Journal Article Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown Get access Sarat Austin, ed., Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ix, 238 pp. $45.00 (cloth). $16.95 (paper). Robert A. Pratt Robert A. Pratt University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 208–20…
Along Freedom Road
Journal Article Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South. By David S. Cecelski. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 235 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2126-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4437-3.) Get access Robert A. Pratt Robert A. Pratt University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
The Color of Their Skin
The Color of Their Skin
The Color of Their Skin
Journal Article The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89. By Robert A. Pratt. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. xx + 134 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8139-1372-1.) Get access David R. Colburn David R. Colburn University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 341–342, https…
James Milton Turner and the Promise of America
Journal Article James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Gary R. Kremer. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. xiv + 245 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-0780-4.) Get access James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Kremer Gary R.. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. xiv + 245 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-0780-4.) Robert A.…
Beyond the Ring
Some Latin Sources of the Nonnes Preest on Dreams
Three Old French Sources of the Nonnes Preestes Tale (Part I)
Three Old French Sources of the Nonnes Preestes Tale (Part II)
Middle English Romances
Chaucer and the Hand that Fed Him
Giovanni Sercambi, Speziale
Chaucer's Claudian
Medievalia et Humanistica, Fasciculus Secundus
The Literary Relationships of Chaucer's Clerkes Tale . J. Burke Severs
Chaucer and the Visconti Libraries
The Color of Their Skin
Journal Article The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89. By Robert A. Pratt. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. xx + 134 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8139-1372-1.) Get access David R. Colburn David R. Colburn University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 341–342, https…
Chaucer and the Hand that Fed Him
Chaucer and the Visconti Libraries
The Literary Relationships of Chaucer's Clerkes Tale . J. Burke Severs
Medievalia et Humanistica, Fasciculus Secundus
Chaucer's Claudian
Giovanni Sercambi, Speziale
Chaucer and the Hand that Fed Him
Middle English Romances
Three Old French Sources of the Nonnes Preestes Tale (Part I)
Three Old French Sources of the Nonnes Preestes Tale (Part II)
Some Latin Sources of the Nonnes Preest on Dreams
Beyond the Ring
James Milton Turner and the Promise of America
Journal Article James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Gary R. Kremer. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. xiv + 245 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-0780-4.) Get access James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. By Kremer Gary R.. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991. xiv + 245 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8262-0780-4.) Robert A.…
The Color of Their Skin
Journal Article The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89. By Robert A. Pratt. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992. xx + 134 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8139-1372-1.) Get access David R. Colburn David R. Colburn University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 341–342, https…
The Color of Their Skin
The Color of Their Skin
Along Freedom Road
Journal Article Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South. By David S. Cecelski. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 235 pp. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2126-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4437-3.) Get access Robert A. Pratt Robert A. Pratt University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Race, Law, and Culture
Journal Article Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown Get access Sarat Austin, ed., Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ix, 238 pp. $45.00 (cloth). $16.95 (paper). Robert A. Pratt Robert A. Pratt University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 208–20…
Brown v. Board of Education
Journal Article Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents. Ed. by Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Boston: Bedford, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-12811-8.) Get access Robert A. Pratt Robert A. Pratt University of Georgia Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 846–847, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567177 Published: 0…
We Shall Not Be Moved
In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply - in reality, a bribe - from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. Ward, outraged at the unfairness of the proposition and determined to end this unequal treatment, sued …
Breaking the Color Barrier
Breaking the Color Barrier examines both the persistent efforts of African Americans to desegregate the United States Naval Academy and the stifling, racist environment that black midshipmen encountered for most of this century. Beginning in 1872 with James Henry Conyers, the first black midshipman to be appointed to the academy, every African American midshipman from then until World War II would have to endure a torrent of racial abuse and ince…
Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Selma's Bloody Sunday
"One can point to more than a few 'critical moments' in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Even so, few incidents so starkly etched the just-treatment claims of the struggle and the raw brutality of the forces arrayed against its protagonists as did the attempted marches from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, Alabama, in the spring of 1965. ... In March of that year the full force of the state of Alabama--state troopers with nightsti…
Brian J. Daugherity. Keep On Keeping On
The 1954 United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, declaring that segregation in public education was unconstitutional, was the culmination of a twenty-year effort begun in the mid-1930s by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). But for all intents and purposes, the Brown decision did not mean an end to school segregation; throughout most of the South, the decision meant a decl…
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