Unreconciled: Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South

How do well—meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining the status quo, or are filled with antipathy toward others? This book tells the story of how a Black university president tried to do just that when he led the first non—court ordered merger of an historically Black university with an historically white two—year college in Albany, Georgia.

Arthur “Art” N. Dunning came of age in the Black Belt of A...