Shadowed Places and Stadium Lights
An Oral History of Integration and Black Student Protest in Marietta, Georgia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11078629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Carbonette Yow (Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-95 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Oral History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ohr/ohv004 |
| OpenAlex | W2125948686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This oral history of school desegregation in Marietta, Georgia, focuses on football culture as a stage for racial reconciliation and rupture. The state championship that Marietta High’s first integrated team won in 1967 functions as the foundational event in Marietta's narrative of racial harmony. This discussion explores how that racial harmony narrative obscured black student activism, particularly the homecoming protests of 1969. The oral history and analysis here make a case both for the importance of excavating suppressed histories of activism, as well as for identifying the processes that obscured those events. Such narratives of student protest are, I argue, critical to how contemporary school communities can formulate a politics of racial justice in place of a narrative of racial harmony.
Aesthetics · Art · Desegregation · Harmony (color) · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |