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THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR
SEGREGATION'S LAST STAND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA |
| By: |
E.Culpepper Clark, Dan T. Carter (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0817354336 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780817354336 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 June, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Revised edition |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Divided into two parts, this title presents a story that covers the period 1943-57, which centers on the admission to and expulsion from the University of Alabama of Autherine Lucy in 1956. It also looks at the events culminating in Wallace's spectacular stand at Foster Auditorium in June 1963. |
| Synopsis: |
E. Culpepper Clark's book is a well-researched and crisply written narrative that draws its energy from the drama of the desegregation crisis in the postwar South...The first part of the story, covering the period 1943-57, centers on the admission to and expulsion from the University of Alabama of Autherine Lucy in 1956. In retrospect this appears as an opportunity for peaceful change that was tragically lost by inept university administrators and trustees, who stalled until Alabama's populist New Deal politics shifted sharply toward segregationist defiance following the bus boycott in Montgomery in 1955-56. The second part centers on the events culminating in Wallace's spectacular stand at Foster Auditorium in June 1963. The flagship at Tuscaloosa, threatened by the research pace of the branch campuses at Birmingham and Huntsville, unable to keep or recruit superior faculty during the post-Sputnik boom years, weakly led by strong politicians like John Patterson and Wallace, emerged from the drama as a badly mauled institution, notable chiefly for its football team and Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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