The schoolhouse door
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780195074178 |
| Open Library | OL4125452W |
| Total publications | 1 |
| Coverage period | 1993 - 1993 |
| Language | EN |
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.
The Schoolhouse Door
Some of the most important battles of the civil rights era were fought in Alabama: Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma and Tuscaloosa. Indeed, Alabama was to the civil rights movement what Virginia was to the Civil War. This is the story of how the University of Alabama experienced the end of segregation and how events on that campus influenced the civil rights movement and exposed the massive resistance to the changes it promised. It is the story of t…
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The Schoolhouse Door
Some of the most important battles of the civil rights era were fought in Alabama: Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma and Tuscaloosa. Indeed, Alabama was to the civil rights movement what Virginia was to the Civil War. This is the story of how the University of Alabama experienced the end of segregation and how events on that campus influenced the civil rights movement and exposed the massive resistance to the changes it promised. It is the story of t…