Really i wanted to take the story of beyond desegregation which occurred in 1963. The idea cover that in the first chapter. I wanted to take you to the rest of the 60s because while we desegregated in 1963 did not integrate. That took a long time even going beyond 1970. Its a ne in the spirit of the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all the energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually 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 being a regional Football Party school and turn itself towards becoming a Major National academic institution. Thats what it has become but it was a long journey in the 1960s sent us in that direction. There were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 60s but really it stems from 1956. The first effort of desegregation which failed horribly. Accompanied by riots. Lucy was a stu
So wendy got me involved. We had known each other through the Literary Community in alabama and in chile. I said this sounds like a great idea. I would love to do it. Once it is about more figured out how to get these essays. We began trying to compile the essays by thinking about we made master list of people that might be interested in being in the boat. We can make big lists. We asked some of these people and we narrowed our list to write original essays and then we also research journals, mac is means, books, any place we could think of to find pieces by people that we might not get to write an original piece that we might be able to reprint something i had done. But were putting this book together, the thing that surprised us most was the willingness of people when we asked them what they write an essay. Yes. We were working with the university press. We had small honorary we could offer them and nevertheless we asked and people just said yes if they said yes like crazy. We though
(NOTE: Normally, I post as Homer J, and speak in the third person. But on matters important to me, such as what life and America are all about, I will post as myself and try to speak from my.