Biondi, Martha. The Black Revolution on Campus. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014.

== Summary ==
This book argues that African American students transformed the American university
in the late 1960s. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most prevalent demand in the
hundreds of campus protest from 1968-9 was African-American inclusion, not
opposition to Vietnam. “They insisted that public universities should reflect
and serve the people of their communities; that private universities should
rethink the mission of elite education; and that historically black colleges
should survive the era of integration and shift their mission to community-based
Black empowerment.” (p. 2) These black students were influenced by both the
experiences of SNCC and the political rhetoric of the Black Panther Party/black
power. Many of the black students students, integration should be a two-way process, not one in which a black person integrates on “white terms” (No recognition of the African American experience, both in the curriculum and on campus). Student activists were a mix of preaffirmative action children of college-educated parents, first-generation college students from migrant, working class families. Vast majority of the students financed college through a combination of scholarships, employment, parental contribution, and loans.  Their demands for black studies were shaped by three factors:
ideological disputes over what should serve as the intellectual basis for black
studies; the desire of some scholars to pursue conventional academic careers;
and the influence of feminism and Marxism within black studies. "They succeeded," Biondi argues, “in bringing a black perspective to the entire process of
integration, forcing administrators and faculty to hear their views and
accommodate their cultural interests and aspirations.” (271)
Example: San Francisco State (1968-9) first large mobilization: 900 black students out of 18,000 (1968) yet were able to organize a massive strike that brought university to a standstill