Journal article
Engineering Segregation: The University of Maryland in the Twilight of Jim Crow
Magazine of history, v 24(3)
01 Jul 2010
Abstract
Since the nation's founding, black citizens had customarily been held by the white majority to have little aptitude for scientific and technical work. In the late 1940s, as white students swelled the ranks of engineering enrollees at College Park, Byrd argued that few blacks would take advantage of graduate engineering education, should it be offered to them through the UMD system. [...] he naturalized their underrepresentation in that realm.
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- Title
- Engineering Segregation: The University of Maryland in the Twilight of Jim Crow
- Creators
- Amy Slaton
- Publication Details
- Magazine of history, v 24(3)
- Publisher
- Organization of American Historians
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Other Identifier
- 991019298822404721