A story which demonstrates the range of human behavior—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
~Bowling Green Daily News
Of particular interest is the author's recounting of the conflict in the early years of the 20th century over the form and content of higher education for blacks.
~Choice
As the first book-length treatment of this topic, Hardin's work will prove a valuable resource to both scholars and the general reading public.
~Filson Club Historical Quarterly
This book contributes significantly to the history of black higher education in Kentucky and throughout the nation.
~Florida Historical Quarterly
Hardin achieved his objective, the explanation of the fall of Jim Crow higher education in Kentucky.
~Journal of American History
A well-researched volume documenting the progress of historically black colleges and universities in the state and the struggle to reintegrate Kentucky's colleges and universities.
~Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Convincingly documents the ways in which Kentucky's white politicians kept black colleges starved for cash, hoarded funds for black over white schools, refused to make any meaningful attempt to establish black graduate schools, and resisted black attempts to challenge either such inequities or the segregated educational system itself.
~Journal of Southern History
Chronicles 'genteel or polite racism' backed by the Day Law of 1904, which mandated only segregated education throughout the state.
~Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society
The politics, policies, events and personalities are not presented in a vacuum, but are interpreted, with great effectiveness, in relation to larger state and national issues.
~Lexington Herald Leader
Hardin has presented a first-rate monograph on black higher education in Kentucky between 1904 and 1954.
~North Carolina Historical Review
Provides a fine case study that will interest anyone concerned with the historical relationship between racism and education or in the Bluegrass State.
~Ohio Valley History
A valuable contribution to the growing number of studies of the modern civil rights movement in the South.
~Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Hardin places his work in the context of national and regional trends.... Kentucky provides an opportunity to study courses not taken and gives us a case study of a place where different options were possible.
~Thaddeus Smith, Middle Tennessee State University
