From Brown to Meredith

“[A] valuable and accessible community study.” — Journal of Southern History

“An important case study in history and oral history because of its extensive use of interviews.” — Oral History Review

“The richness of these primary sources does recommend the work as a supplementary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in modern American history.” — Journal of American History

“An important contribution to the study of school desegregation. . . .From Brown to Meredith expands our understanding of the “long” civil rights movement by examining how school integration has fared in recent decades.” — Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

“Well-researched and methodologically sound. . . . A laudable job.” — Journal of African American History

“K'Meyer brings scholarly sophistication and a breadth of knowledge to this straightforward, articulate, important contribution to the history of the Civil Rights Movement.” — Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky

“From Brown to Meredith is an intervention: it takes on current (mis)understandings about the history of school desegregation, especially the tendency to see it as over and done with and, consequently, a failure. Here is an alternate history — grounded in oral history — of biracial efforts to support successful desegregation, especially through busing, that most maligned of means to achieve integration. We glimpse here what it would have taken, and what Louisville partially achieved, to make the promise of Brown a reality.” — Kathy Nasstrom, University of San Francisco