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Author Shabazz, Amilcar.

Title Advancing democracy : African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas / Amilcar Shabazz.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrations, map
Students language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index.
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject University of Texas at Austin -- Students -- History.
University of Texas at Austin.
History.
University of Texas at Austin.
College integration -- Texas -- History.
College integration.
Texas.
African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Texas -- History.
African Americans -- Education (Higher)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Shabazz, Amilcar. Advancing democracy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004 0807828335 0807855057 (DLC) 2003012091 (OCoLC)54452955
ISBN 0807875988 (electronic book)
9780807875988 (electronic book)
9781469619699 (electronic book)
1469619695 (electronic book)
9780807828335
0807828335
9780807855058
0807855057