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The schoolhouse door :

1280528052

1429406119

9781280528057

9781429406116

0195096584

b751866

The schoolhouse door :

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segregation's last stand at the University of Alabama /

E. Culpepper Clark.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

1995.

1 online resource (xxiv, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :

illustrations

Originally published by Oxford University Press in hardcover in 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-294) and index.

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.

Schoolhouse door.

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Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald),1917-1963-- Views on college integration.

Wallace, George C., (George Corley),1919-1998-- Views on college integration.

Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald),1917-1963.

Wallace, George C., (George Corley),1919-1998.

University of Alabama-- History.

University of Alabama.

Civil rights movements-- Alabama-- History.

College integration-- Alabama-- History.

Civil rights movements.

College integration.

EDUCATION-- Higher.

Alabama.

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Clark, E. Culpepper.

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