Despite his impressive academic record, Ward received a reply-in reality, a bribe-from one of the university's top officials offering him financial assistance if he would attend an out-of-state law school. In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia. The result was this book-a sharply detailed portrait of how these two young people faced coldness, hostility, and occasional understanding on a southern campus in the midst of a great social change. He interviewed not only Holmes and Hunter but also their families, friends, and fellow students, professors, and university administrators. Shortly before their graduation in 1963, Trillin came back to Georgia to determine what their college lives had been like.
Calvin Trillin, then a reporter for Time Magazine, attended the court fight that led to the admission of Holmes and Hunter and covered their first week at the university-a week that began in relative calm, moved on to a riot and the suspension of the two students "for their own safety," and ended with both returning to the campus under a new court order. In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia.
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