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Anyone who loves history and Alabama will love this book. Hollars has the ability to always keep readers anticipating what will happen next

Anyone who loves history and Alabama will love this book. Hollars has the ability to always keep readers anticipating what will happen next. Linda R. Beito, coauthor of Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power.

Anyone who loves history and Alabama will love this book . Hollars’s book goes a long way toward addressing that oversight and thus tells a story that most readers will find unfamiliar, yet intriguing. Frye Gaillard, author of Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America and Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom. B. J. Hollars is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and the author of Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America.

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Opening the Doors book. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of Alabama’s desegregation, in Opening the Doors B. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa’s purposemovement.

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Published by: The University of Alabama Press. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa’s purposeful divide between town and gown, providing a new contextual framework for this landmark period in civil rights history.

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In the summer of 1964, the struggle for equality in Tuscaloosa resulted in the integration of the city’s public facilities, a march on the county courthouse, a bloody battle between police and protesters, confrontations with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a bus boycott, and the hing of movie star Jack Palance.

Opening the Doors THE DESEGREGATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA University of Alabama Press. And the fight for CIVIL rights in tuscaloosa b. hollars. The image of George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door has long burned however, just as interesting are the circumstances that led him there in the first place, a process that proved successful due to the of dedicated. president, a steadfast administration, and secret negotiations between the U. S. Justice Department, the White House, and Alabama's stubborn governor