Schoolhouse Door

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Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama

Autor: E. Culpepper Clark

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Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc

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On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace...

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Autor

E. Culpepper Clark

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1995

strony

352

EAN

9780195096583

ISBN

0195096584

Enbook ID

04513607

Wydawca

Oxford University Press Inc

Waga

547

Wymiary

155 x 235 x 25

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On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace physically blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama's campus. His intent was to defy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, sent on behalf of the Kennedy administration to force Alabama to accept court-ordered desegregation. After a tense confrontation, President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard and Wallace backed down, allowing Vivian Malone and James Hood to become the first African Americans to enroll successfully at their state's flagship university. That night, John F. Kennedy went on television to declare civil rights a "moral issue" and to commit his administration to this cause. That same night, Medgar Evers was shot dead. In The Schoolhouse Door, E. Culpepper Clark provides a riveting account of the events that led to Wallace's historic stand, tracing a tangle of intrigue and resistance that stretched from the 1940s, when the university rejected black applicants outright, to the post-Brown v. Board of Education era. In these pages, full of courageous black applicants, fist-shaking demonstrators, and powerful politicians, Clark captures the dramatic confrontations that transformed the University of Alabama into a proving ground for the civil rights movement and gave the nation unforgettable symbols for its struggle to achieve racial justice.

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