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Opening the Doors : The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa /

This book is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama's 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama's, own civil rights movement. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark's The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the Univers...

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Autor principal: Hollars, B. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : Setting the Stage for Desegregation -- The Mobs. The Cross and the Cadillac : January 26-February 3, 1956 ; "Mule Sense" and the Mobs : February 3-5, 1956 ; Monday's Misfortunes : February 6, 1956 ; The President's Problem : February 6, 1956 ; A War of Words : February 7-March 1956 -- The Stand. Prepping for Peace : Fall 1962-Spring 1963 ; The Law of the Land : June 5-11, 1963 ; Boone versus Bull : June 6-10, 1963 ; Guns and a Governor : June 8-9, 1963 ; The Calm before the Stand : June 10, 1963 ; A Stand for Segregation : June 11, 1963 ; New Students, New Strategy : June 11-July 1963 ; Old Wounds Healed : October 10, 1996, and September 16, 1998 -- The Movement. The Rise of Reverend Rogers : 1954-64 ; The Clash at the Courthouse : January-April 23, 1964 ; Photographs ; The Myth of Marable : May-June 8, 1964 ; Bloody Tuesday : June 9, 1964 ; Jamming the Jails : June 10-13, 1964 ; The Defenders : Dates Unknown ; Testing Tuscaloosa : June 30-July 7, 1964 ; Movie Mayhem : July 8-10, 1964 ; Boycotting Buses : August 1-September 12, 1964 ; Remembering Reverend Rogers : March 25-29, 1971 ; The End of an Era : 1964-71 -- Epilogue : A New Beginning : June 11, 2011. 
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