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Opening the doors : the desegregation of the University of Alabama and the fight for civil rights in Tuscaloosa / B.J. Hollars.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollars, B. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College integration--Alabama--History.
- College integration.
- Civil rights movements--Alabama--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- University of Alabama--History.
- University of Alabama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Opening the Doors 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 University of Alabama's desegregation, in Opening the Doors B. J. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa's purposeful divide between "town" and "gown," providing a new contextual framework for this landmark period in civil rights history. The image of G
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The mobs
- pt. 2. The stand
- pt. 3. The movement.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8669-6
- OCLC:
- 829459897
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