signed first edition Hardcover
1979 · Kansas City
by Theodore M. Hesburgh, C. S. C.
Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel Publishing,, 1979. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" To Jim and Beth, with affectionate best wishes and prayers - & thanks. Ever devotedly in Notre Dame, Father Ted Hesburgh". . Important education and Civil Rights Association Copy. James Armsey, ( 1918-2008) was the Ford Foundation executive who oversaw grants to universities and colleges in the 1960s, with the only requirement that they had to raise matching funds from other sources. At his urging the Foundation added the requirement that the colleges and universities could not bar black students. This change caused a number of them, including Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University, Tulane University, and several major private colleges, to admit black students for the first time. Father Ted Hesburgh (1917-2015) was president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and one of the nations most influential figures in higher education, the Catholic Church, and national and international affairs. Fine, with scattered underlining and marginal markings and the Armsey's blindstamp at title page and last page of text, in a Near Fine dust jacket, top corner front flap price-clipped, and in Fine blue cloth slipcase. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.
(Inventory #: 010187)