The Black Campus Movement [electronic resource] : Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972 /
Kendi, Ibram X.author.
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction; 1 An "Island Within": Black Students and Black Higher Education Prior to 1965; 2 "God Speed the Breed": New Negro in the Long Black Student Movement; 3 "Strike While the Iron Is Hot": Civil Rights in the Long Black Student Movement; 4 "March Th at Won't Turn Around": Formation and Development of the Black Campus Movement; 5 "Shuddering in a Paroxysm of Black Power": A Narrative Overview of the Black Campus Movement
6 "A Fly in Buttermilk": Black Campus Movement Organizations, Demands, Protests, and Support7 "Black Jim Crow Studies": Opposition and Repression; 8 "Black Students Refuse to Pass the Buck": The Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education; Epilogue: Backlash and Forward Lashes of the Black Campus Movement; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.
Education—History.
Civilization—History.
Higher education.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
History of Education.
Cultural History.
Higher Education.
US History.
Modern History.
Social History.