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Advancing democracy African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas

Title: Advancing democracy [electronic resource] : African Americans and the struggle for access and equity in higher education in Texas / Amilcar Shabazz.
Author: Shabazz, Amilcar.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Description

1 online resource (xiii, 301 p.) : ill., map.

Uniform Title

Advancing democracy (Online)

Alternative Title

Advancing democracy (Online)

Subject

University of Texas at Austin > Students > History
College integration > Texas > History
African Americans > Education (Higher) > History. > Texas

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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