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Title Embattled Lawrence : conflict & community / edited by Dennis Domer & Barbara Watkins.

Imprint [Lawrence, Kan.] : University of Kansas Continuing Education, c2001.

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 Axe Kansas Collection  978.165 Em12    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxv, 441 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-430) and index.
Contents "History from the bottom up" : local history and empowerment / William M. Tuttle Jr. -- Yankee town on the Kaw : a geographical and historical perspective on Lawrence and its environs / James R. Shortridge, Barbara G. Shortridge -- John Brown and Lawrence, Kansas Territory, 1855-1859 : a militant abolitionist's relationship with the Free State fortress / Karl L. Gridley -- Historic Jayhawkers and the mythical Jayhawk / Richard B. Sheridan -- William Quantrill and the Lawrence Massacre, August 21, 1863 / Richard B. Sheridan -- Elizabeth "Bettie" Duncan : diary of a daily life, 1864 / Katie H. Armitage -- University of Kansas and the years of frustration, 1854-1864 / C. S. Griffin -- Charting a course : Lawrence, Kansas, and its railroad strategy, 1854-1872 / I. E. Quastler -- Workers' housing, workers' neighborhood : historic East Lawrence / Dale E. Nimz -- Mastering the Kaw : the Bowersock Dam and the development of Lawrence industry / Brian Black -- Mastering mud on Main Street : paving technology in the late nineteenth century / Cathy Ambler -- Separate but not equal : African Americans and the 100-year struggle for equality in Lawrence and at the University of Kansas, 1850s-1960 / William M. Tuttle Jr. -- "New Carlisle of the West" : Haskell Institute and big-time sports, 1920-1932 / Keith A. Sculle -- Dreams deferred : growing up black and blue in Langston Hughes' Lawrence / Elizabeth Schultz -- "Forgotten years" of America's civil rights movement : wartime protests at the University of Kansas, 1939-1945 / Kristine M. McCusker -- Taking the plunge : race, rights, and the politics of desegregation in Lawrence, Kansas, 1960 / Rusty L. Monhollon -- Lawrence, Kansas, and the making of the sixties / Rusty L. Monhollon -- Prescribing the pill : politics, culture, and the sexual revolution in America's heartland / Beth Bailey -- Picking hemp in Douglas County / Louie Louis -- Lawrence in the 1970s : recollections of a mayor / Barkley Clark -- William S. Burroughs : did Lawrence matter? / James Grauerholz -- William S. Burroughs / Jim McCrary -- Biography of a city / Wayne Propst -- Water in Willow Springs Township / Dennis Domer -- Building community power structures, 1984-1998 : the rise of grassroots neighborhood influence / Steve Lopes -- Downtown Lawrence : marketplace and heart of a political community / Paul Schumaker -- Considering context in urban redevelopment : the Douglas County Bank and its legacies / Noel Rasor -- Alvamar : the city within / Dennis Domer -- Building old, building new : new architecture in Lawrence / Dan Rockhill and David Sain -- Haskell Indian Nations University : the story of a contested terrain / Daniel Wildcat -- South Lawrence Trafficway controversy / Larry Kipp -- Big business on a small stage : Columbia/HCA comes to Lawrence / Ray Davis -- Cornerstone of a caring community : the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center / Barbara Watkins -- Lawrence politics : three themes, four notions, and a handful of stories / Burdett Loomis -- What a city! / Ivo Ivanov.
Subject Lawrence (Kan.) -- History.
Added Author Domer, Dennis, 1944-
Watkins, Barbara L.
ISBN 0936352191

 
    
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