Help Our Public Education, integrating Atlanta's public schools, and the grassroots pushback against Georgia's segregationist political elite

• In Event: Politics and Education

Brief Overview

In 1958, a group of white women formed Help Our Public Education, a coalition to keep Georgia's public schools open post-Brown. This paper examines how HOPE's strategy to avoid race-talk checked Georgia's segregationist political class.

Author

• Joseph Nichols, Saint Louis University