LEADER 03537nam 2200625 450 001 9910813040903321 005 20230421044724.0 010 $a1-280-52805-2 010 $a9786610528059 010 $a0-19-535716-7 010 $a1-4294-0611-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000403777 035 $a(MH)002886281-3 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000241942 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12086079 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241942 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299857 035 $a(PQKB)11041563 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4702626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4963425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4702626 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11273663 035 $a(OCoLC)960163077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4963425 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52805 035 $a(OCoLC)1027143630 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000403777 100 $a20161012h19951995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe schoolhouse door $esegregation's last stand at the University of Alabama /$fE. Culpepper Clark 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d1995. 210 4$dİ1995 215 $a1 online resource (xxiv, 305 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-509658-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aOn 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. 606 $aCollege integration$zAlabama$xHistory 606 $aCivil rights movements$zAlabama$xHistory 615 0$aCollege integration$xHistory. 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory. 676 $a378.761/84 700 $aClark$b E. Culpepper$01669046 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813040903321 996 $aThe schoolhouse door$94030074 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress