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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b4192666.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 305 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Schoolhouse door.".
- catalog identifier "0195074173 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog identifier "0195096584 (pbk)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Schoolhouse door.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Schoolhouse door.".
- catalog spatial "Alabama".
- catalog subject "378.761/84 20".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements Alabama History.".
- catalog subject "College integration Alabama History.".
- catalog subject "Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 Views on college integration.".
- catalog subject "Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.".
- catalog subject "LD73 .C57 1993".
- catalog subject "University of Alabama History.".
- catalog subject "University of Alabama.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919- Views on college integration.".
- catalog subject "Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998.".
- catalog title "The schoolhouse door : segregation's last stand at the University of Alabama / E. Culpepper Clark.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".