Higher education and the civil rights movement
Subtitle: white supremacy, black Southerners, and college campuses
By: edited by Peter Wallenstein ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.
Contributors: Wallenstein, Peter.
Series: Southern dissent
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780813031620
Subjects: College integration -- Southern States -- History; Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History; Social change -- Southern States -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Black southerners and nonblack universities : the process of desegregating southern higher education, 1935-1965 / Peter Wallenstein; title: Four who would : Constantine v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) and the desegregation of Louisiana's state colleges / Michael G. Wade; title: The long journey from Lagrange to Atlanta : Horace Ward and the desegregation of the University of Georgia / Robert A. Pratt; title: Black colleges and civil rights : organizing and mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi / Joy Ann Williamson; title: Prying the door farther open : a memoir of black student protest at the University of Maryland at College Park, 1966-1970 / Hayward "Woody" Farrar; title: Hold that (color) line! : black exclusion and Southeastern Conference Football / Charles H. Martin; title: African American women pioneers in desegregating higher education / Marcia G. Synnott.