"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[...]
This book is the winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, and winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize. The story of the civil rights movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. But as Martha Biondi sh[...]