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Author Shabazz, Amilcar.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 301 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject University of Texas at Austin -- Students -- History.
College integration -- Texas -- History.
African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Texas -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807875988
0807828335 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807855057 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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