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We shall not be moved :

0820326321

9780820326320

0820323993

0820327808

9780820323992

9780820327808

b758058

We shall not be moved :

[Book]

the desegregation of the University of Georgia /

Robert A. Pratt.

Athens :

University of Georgia Press,

©2002.

1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.

"Contents"; "Preface"; "Acknowledgments"; "ONE: More than a Matter of Segregation"; "TWO: The Color Is Black"; "THREE: A Qualified Negro"; "FOUR: Journey to the Horizons"; "FIVE: Tolerated, but Not Integrated"; "SIX: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now"; "EPILOGUE: Burying Unhappy Ghosts"; "Notes"; "Bibliography"; "Index"; "A"; "B"; "C"; "D"; "E"; "F"; "G"; "H"; "I"; "J"; "K"; "L"; "M"; "N"; "O"; "P"; "R"; "S"; "T"; "U"; "V"; "W"; "Y"; "Z."

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In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply - in reality, a bribe - from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. Ward, outraged at the unfairness of the proposition and determined to end this unequal treatment, sued the state of Georgia with the help of the NAACP, becoming the first black student to challenge segregation at the University of Georgia. Beginning with Ward's unsuccessful application to the university and equally unsuccessful suit, Robert A. Pratt offers a rigorously researched account of the tumultuous events surrounding the desegregation of Georgia's flagship institution. Relying on archival materials and oral histories, Pratt debunks the myths encircling the landmark 1961 decision to accept black students into the university: namely the notion that the University of Georgia desegregated with very little violent opposition. Pratt shows that when Ward, by then a lawyer, helped litigate for the acceptance of Hamilton Earl Holmes and Charlayne Alberta Hunter, University of Georgia students, rather than outsiders, carefully planned riots to encourage the expulsion of Holmes and Hunter. Pratt also demonstrates how local political leaders throughout the state sympathized with - even aided and abetted- the student protestors. Pratt's provocative story of one civil rights struggle does not stop with the initial legal decision that ended segregation at the university. He also examines the legacy of Horace Ward and other civil rights pioneers involved in the university's desegregation - including Donald Hollowell and Constance Baker Motley - who continued for a lifetime to break color barriers in the South and beyond. We Shall Not Be Moved is a testament to Horace Ward, Hamilton Holmes, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and others who bravely challenged years of legalized segregation.

JSTOR

22573/ctt3q4z3k

We shall not be moved.

0820323993

Triumphant story of Horace Ward, Charlayne Hunter, and Hamilton Holmes

University of Georgia-- Students-- History.

University of Georgia

University of Georgia.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

College integration-- Georgia-- Athens-- History.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

College integration.

EDUCATION-- Higher.

Integration

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Civil Rights.

Schwarze

Students.

Athens, Ga.

Georgia, Athens.

Schwarze.

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EDU-- 015000

EDU016000

HIS036060

POL004000

Pratt, Robert A.,1958-

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