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Shabazz, Amilcar.
Advancing democracy
[electronic resource] :
African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas /
Amilcar Shabazz.
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2004.
1 online resource (xiii, 301 p.) :
ill., map.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.
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.
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.
University of Texas at Austin
Students
History.
College integration
Texas
History.
African Americans
Education (Higher)
Texas
History.
Education
Higher.
Electronic books.
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