Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star
Author: Terrence Cole
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 1883309069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the role of C. W. "Bill" Snedden, owner and publisher of the "Fairbanks Daily News-Miner," and his protege Ted Stevens, a young attorney, in mounting a campaign to win statehood for Alaska in the 1950s, and tells of the opposition they faced from segregationists who feared Alaska would open the door to Hawaii, and the addition of four new senators would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation.