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Engineering The Perfect Cup Of Coffee: Samuel Prescott And The Sanitary Vision At Mit, Larry Owens
Engineering The Perfect Cup Of Coffee: Samuel Prescott And The Sanitary Vision At Mit, Larry Owens
Larry Owens
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Racial Terror & The Attempt To Stop The Desegregation Of Lamar State College Of Technology, Amilcar Shabazz
Racial Terror & The Attempt To Stop The Desegregation Of Lamar State College Of Technology, Amilcar Shabazz
Amilcar Shabazz
The desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont was marked by racial terror. The clash at Lamar climaxed a protracted antidiscrimination campaign that developed during the Second World War, escalated in 1949 when Lamar grew from a locally supported junior college to a state-supported senior college, and turned into a court battle in the wake of the victorious 1950 Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter which opened certain graduate and professional school programs at the University of Texas to African Americans. While in the book Advancing Democracy my focus is on documenting Lamar’s desegregation and situating the …
In Flanders Fields: Uncovering The Carnage Of World War I, Neil A. Silberman
In Flanders Fields: Uncovering The Carnage Of World War I, Neil A. Silberman
Neil A. Silberman
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