Download or read book Fighting for the Forty-Ninth Star written by Terrence Cole and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses 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.