id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15975 Harger, Elaine Williamson, Joy Ann. Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi. New York: Teachers College Press (Reflective History Series), 2008. 214 p. alk. paper, $66 (ISBN 9780807748640). LC 2007-048836. 2008-11-01 11 .pdf application/pdf 7227 269 47 As the editor, Mostafa El-Abbadi explains, the original idea was to explore the fate of the Library of Alexandria, but the theme developed into “a study of the cultural context of the Alexandria Library with special emphasis on the still less explored Late Antiquity.” As indicated in the introduction, while the civil rights activism of black students has long been part of the historiography of the period, the topic has received very litt le indepth examination. cache/crl-15975.pdf txt/crl-15975.txt