Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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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.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt5g9r11
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Title
Advancing democracy.
International Standard Book Number
0807855057
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
University of Texas at Austin-- Students-- History.
University of Texas at Austin.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African Americans-- Education (Higher)-- Texas-- History.