Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

12/1/1972 - 9/30/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


The Eisenhower Administration and the Politics of School Integration

FAIN: FB-11317-72

Utah State University (Logan, UT 84322-1400)
Frank R. Peterson (Project Director: December 1972 to present)

To study the politics of school desegregation. Practical political considerations as well as idealsitic hopes must be examined as contributors to the integration movement. Once early motivations are discovered and analyzed, then the current integration disputes should appear in an understood historical context.