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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.
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Through the Arch captures UGAs colorful past, dynamic present, and promising future in a novel way: by surveying its buildings, structures, and spaces. These physical features are the universitys most visibleand some of its most valuableresources. Yet they are largely overlooked, or treated only passingly, in histories and standard publications about UGA. Through text and photographs, this book places buildings and spaces in the context of UGAs development over more than 225 years. After opening with a brief historical overview of the university, the book profiles over 140 buildings, landmarks, and spaces, their history, appearance, and past and current usage, as well as their namesake, beginning with the oldest structures on North Campus and progressing to the newest facilities on South and East Campus and the emerging Northwest Quadrant. Many profiles are supplemented with sidebars relating traditions, lore, facts, or alumni recollections associated with buildings and spaces. More than just landmarks or static elements of infrastructure, buildings and spaces embody the universitys values, cultural heritage, and educational purpose. These facilitiesmany more than a century oldare where students learn, explore, and grow and where faculty teach, research, and create. They harbor the universitys history and traditions, protect its treasures, and hold memories for alumni. The repository for books, documents, artifacts, and tools that contain and convey much of the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of human existence, these structures are the legacy of generations. And they are tangible symbols of UGAs commitment to improve our world through education. Guide includes: 113 color photos throughout; 19 black-and-white historical photos; Over 140 profiles of buildings, landmarks, and spaces; Supplemental sidebars with traditions, lore, facts, and alumni anecdotes; 6 maps.
Slavery --- Catholics --- Irish --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Christians --- Irishmen (Irish people) --- Ethnology --- History --- Ethnic identity. --- West Indies, British --- British West Indies --- Commonwealth Caribbean --- West Indies --- Ethnic relations --- University of Georgia --- Georgia. --- College of George (Athens, Ga.) --- Franklin College (Athens, Ga.) --- UGA --- Buildings --- Athens (Ga.) --- Athens-Clarke County (Ga.) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Enslaved persons
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