TY - BOOK ID - 77867185 TI - The schoolhouse door : segregation's last stand at the University of Alabama PY - 1995 SN - 1280528052 9786610528059 0195357167 1429406119 9781429406116 9781280528057 0195096584 6610528055 9780195357165 PB - New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - College integration KW - Civil rights movements KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - College desegregation KW - Desegregation in higher education KW - Integration in higher education KW - Education, Higher KW - School integration KW - Universities and colleges KW - History. KW - Wallace, George C. KW - Kennedy, John F. KW - Kennedy, John Fitzgerald KW - Wallace, George Corley, KW - University of Alabama KW - University of Alabama System KW - Alabama. KW - Alabama University KW - UA (University of Alabama) KW - University of Alabama System. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77867185 AB - On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace physically blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama's campus. His intent was to defy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, sent on behalf of the Kennedy administration to force Alabama to accept court-ordered desegregation. After a tense confrontation, President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard and Wallace backed down, allowing Vivian Malone and James Hood to become the first African Americans to enroll successfully at their state's flagship university. That night, John F. Kennedy went on television to declare civil rights a "moral issue" and to commit his administration to this cause. That same night, Medgar Evers was shot dead. In The Schoolhouse Door, E. Culpepper Clark provides a riveting account of the events that led to Wallace's historic stand, tracing a tangle of intrigue and resistance that stretched from the 1940s, when the university rejected black applicants outright, to the post-Brown v. Board of Education era. In these pages, full of courageous black applicants, fist-shaking demonstrators, and powerful politicians, Clark captures the dramatic confrontations that transformed the University of Alabama into a proving ground for the civil rights movement and gave the nation unforgettable symbols for its struggle to achieve racial justice. ER -