CSPAN3 Book Discussion On Turning The Tide May 15, 2016
While we desegregated in 19 623, in 1963, we did not integrate. That took a long time, going even beyond 1970. But this is when the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all that energy that had gone to trying to maintain an illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama begin to turn itself away from a regional Football Party school toward becoming a Major National academic institution. That is what it has become, but it was a long journey in the 1960s that sent us t...
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