books by Albert L. Samuels

books by Albert L. Samuels

books:

Albert L. Samuels

Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State
Samuel L. Webb, Margaret E. Armbrester, ...

Univ of Alabama Pr (Txt), 2001

The story of Alabama's governors has been often bizarre, occasionally inspiring, but never dull. Several of the state's early governors fought duels; one killed his wife's lover. A Reconstruction era-governor barricaded himself in his administrative office and refused to give it up when voters failed to reelect him. A 20th-century governor, an ...

Is Separate Unequal? Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation
Albert L. Samuels

University Press of Kansas, 2004

When racial segregation was the rule in southern schools, all-black universities like Jackson State, Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State represented the only opportunities for African Americans to obtain a college education. For that reason, the move toward desegregation triggered by Brown v. Board of Education was a mixed blessing for ...