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Author Shabazz, Amilcar, author

Title Advancing democracy : African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas / Amilcar Shabazz
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrations, map
Series UNC Press law publications
Civil rights and social justice
Contents As separate as the fingers : higher education in Texas from promise to problem, 1865-1940 -- The all-out war for democracy in education : ideological struggle and the Texas University movement -- Lift the seventy-five-year-old color ban and raise UT's standards : university students for democracy before Sweatt -- This is white civilization's last stand : university desegregation before Brown -- Democracy is on the march in Texas : Black equality versus white power, 1955-1957 -- Plowing around Africans on Aryan plantations : access without acceptance at Texas universities, 1958-1965
Summary Tracing the philosophical, legal and grassroots components of the campaign to open Texas universities to black students, this book shows the complex range of strategies and the diversity of ideology and methodology on the part of black activists and intellectuals who promoted educational equality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject University of Texas at Austin -- Students -- History
SUBJECT University of Texas at Austin fast
Subject College integration -- Texas -- History
African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Texas -- History
EDUCATION -- Higher.
African Americans -- Education (Higher)
College integration
Students
Hochschule
Rassendiskriminierung
Texas
Texas
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807875988
9780807875988
9781469619699
1469619695