What's My Name, Fool? by Zirin Dave

Author:Zirin, Dave [Zirin, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781608461103
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2010-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

Alabama’s Crimson Past

The University of Alabama. The name is prominently etched in two very different chapters of U.S. history. In one chapter, there is the Alabama Crimson Tide football program: perched on the Mount Olympus of college sports, home to twelve national championships, twenty-one South Eastern Conference (SEC) titles, and legendary coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. In another chapter, far removed from cheerleaders, tailgating, and touchdowns, there is the university as it stood in the 1950s and sixties: a fortress of racial segregation, and ground zero in the movement for civil rights. In this chapter, the star is not Joe Namath passing the Tide to Sugar Bowl glory, but Governor George Wallace, standing on the steps, proclaiming “Segregation forever!” to rapturous cheers, and a young James Meredith needing a National Guard escort to walk through a very different kind of crimson tide just to get to class.

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