| Description |
1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Contents |
Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ohio University, Athens, & Race -- Effects of World War II on Civil Rights -- Ohio University and Racial Issues: 1945 to 1950 -- Soulful Bobcats -- The Decade's Earliest Arrivals -- The 1953 Contingent -- A 1954 Group -- The Latecomers -- Continuing Racial Concerns at Ohio University -- The 1950s Soulful Bobcats on Their Own -- Epilogue -- Source Notes |
| Summary |
During the 1950s, a group of ambitious young African Americans enrolled at Ohio University, a predominantly white school in Athens, Ohio. Years later, eighteen of them decided to share their stories, recalling the joys and challenges of living on a white campus before the civil rights era |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ohio University -- Students -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Ohio University fast |
| Subject |
African American college students -- Ohio -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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African American college students
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Students
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Ohio
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hollow, Betty, 1938- author.
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McDavis, Roderick J., author of introduction, etc
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| LC no. |
2013027507 |
| ISBN |
9780966764475 |
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0966764471 |
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0966764463 |
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9780966764468 |
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