The Black revolution on campus
By: Martha Biondi
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780520269224
Subjects: Education (Higher); African American student movements; African American college students; African Americans; Political activity; History
Description: "The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the Black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed college life. At stake was the very mission of higher education. Black students demanded that public universities serve their communities, that private universities rethink the mission of elite education, and that Black colleges embrace self-determination and resist the threat of integration. Most crucially, Black students demanded a role in the definition of scholarly knowledge."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.