Horace T. Ward : desegration of the University of Georgia, civil rights advocacy, and jurisprudence / by Maurice C. Daniels.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Daniels, Maurice Charles, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ward, Horace T. (Horace Taliaferro), 1927-2016.
• Judges--United States--Biography.
• Judges.
• Discrimination in education.
• History.
• United States.
• Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
• Civil rights workers.
• Discrimination in education--United States--History--20th century.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Desegration of the University of Georgia, civil rights advocacy, and jurisprudence

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : Clark Atlanta University Press, 2001.

Summary:

• Horace T. Ward was the first African American to sue for admission to an all-white college or university in Georgia. His protracted lawsuit for admission to the University of Georgia School of Law, though unsuccessful, played a pivotal role in the desegregation of higher education in Georgia a decade later. Ward went on to a distinguished and precedent-setting career as a civil rights litigator, state senator, and ultimately state superior court and federal court judge -- the first appointment of an African American to these judicial positions.
• Maurice C. Daniels's Horace T. Ward not only chronicles Ward's struggle and achievements but contextualizes them within the history of desegregation and civil rights. In meticulous scholarly detail, Daniels recounts the formative role of the NAACP and the perseverance and courage of the African American students and lawyers who challenged segregation. In recounting Ward's story and its surrounding events, Daniels has brought together an impressive array of archival materials, collections of personal papers, court records, and news coverage, along with a wealth of personal interviews by the author.
• Horace T. Ward: Desegregation of the University of Georgia, Civil Rights Advocacy, and Jurisprudence tells the inspiring story, of an African American with a dream courageously pursued through years of adversity, who achieved widespread admiration and respect through his accomplishments as an attorney, legislator, and jurist. Dr. Daniels's book presents an original and definitive history of a crucial epoch in the history of the struggle for desegregation and civil rights.

Contents:

• 1 The NAACP's Formative Role: A Crack in the Wall 1
• 2 Horace Ward's Ambition: Widening the Crack in the Wall 23
• 3 Ward's University of Georgia Application: The Journalistic Controversy 49
• 4 Ward's Legal Battle For Admission: The University's Resistance 77
• 5 Ward's Cause Reenacted: The Applications of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes to the University of Georgia 111
• 6 Ward's Vindication: The Outcome of the Trial and Its Aftermath 143
• 7 Ward's Emerging Career: Civil Rights Attorney and State Senator 165
• 8 Ward's Culminating Triumph: State and Federal Jurist 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

ISBN:

0966855531

OCLC:

48498558