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Title:

Higher education and the civil rights movement : white supremacy, black Southerners, and college campuses / edited by Peter Wallenstein ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xv, 298 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

College integration--Southern States--History.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History.
Social change--Southern States--History.

Other Authors:

Wallenstein, Peter.

Notes:

Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Black southerners and nonblack universities : the process of desegregating southern higher education, 1935-1965 / Peter Wallenstein -- Four who would : Constantine v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) and the desegregation of Louisiana's state colleges / Michael G. Wade -- The long journey from Lagrange to Atlanta : Horace Ward and the desegregation of the University of Georgia / Robert A. Pratt -- Black colleges and civil rights : organizing and mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi / Joy Ann Williamson -- Prying the door farther open : a memoir of black student protest at the University of Maryland at College Park, 1966-1970 / Hayward "Woody" Farrar -- Hold that (color) line! : black exclusion and Southeastern Conference Football / Charles H. Martin -- African American women pioneers in desegregating higher education / Marcia G. Synnott.

Series:

Southern dissent

ISBN:

0813031621 (alk. paper)
9780813031620 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)154677811

LCCN:

2007027406

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)