Race and the university
Subtitle: a memoir
By: George Henderson ; foreword by David W. Levy ; with contributions by Sterlin N. Adams, Sandra D. Rouce, and Ida Elizabeth Mack Wilson.
Contributors: Adams, Sterlin N.; Rouce, Sandra D.; Wilson, Ida Elizabeth Mack.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780806141299
Subjects: Afro-American Student Union (University of Oklahoma) -- History; University of Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century; African American college students -- Oklahoma -- Norman -- Societies, etc. -- History; College integration -- Oklahoma -- Norman -- History; Norman (Okla.) -- Race relations
Description: Memoir of an African American professor at the University of Oklahoma during the 1960s and 1970s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The setting; title: Lessons for rebels; title: Creation of the Afro-American Student Union: Sterlin Adams remembers the beginning of the ASU; title: Seeds of a rebellion; title: A black declaration and a response; title: Public fallout and the ASU push back: Sandra "Sandy" Rouce remembers OU; title: The end of the beginning; title: Too little, but not too late: Ida Elizabeth "Beth" Mack Wilson reminisces; title: Adversaries, bystanders, and allies.