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• Education Activism

  Loh-Hagan, Virginia,

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  Learn all about education activism, from creating inclusive classrooms to ending school shootings. Get a global look at the history of the movement, meet the activists involved, and celebrate some of the legal victories! Each chapters end…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fighting for Our Place in the Sun

  Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement, 1960-1973

  Benson, Richard D. II

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  In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X's educational…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Changing Academia Forever

  Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led

  Epstein, Kitty Kelly, 1946-

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  The most effective and long-lasting student strike in U.S. History took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The first Black Student Union, the first Black Studies Department, the only College of Ethnic Studies, and the admission…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Undaunted by the Fight

  Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957/1967

  Lefever, Harry G.

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  Undaunted by the Fight is a study of small but dedicated, group of Spelman College students and faculty who, between 1957 and 1967 risked their lives, compromised their grades, and jeopardized their careers to make Atlanta and the South a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arsnick

  the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas

  Wallach, Jennifer Jensen

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  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arrived in Arkansas in October 1962 at the request of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, the state affiliate of the Southern Regional Council. SNCC efforts began with Bill Hansen,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 50th Anniversary, Shaw University, Raleigh NC

  1960-2010

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). 50th Anniversary Conference Raleigh, N.C.)

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  In April 2010, hundreds of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From Sit-ins to SNCC

  the Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

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  From Sit-ins to SNCC is an examination of the role of the SNCC and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement.

• The Hands of Peace

  Ingram, Marione,

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  Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, only to find when she came to the United States that racism was as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe. Moving first to New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Struggle for a Better South

  the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969

  Michel, Gregg L.

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  Struggle for a Better South dispels the notion that all whites in the South stood united against social change in the 1960s. Gregg Michel's compelling study of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), the leading progressive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Young Activists

  American High School Students in the Age of Protest

  Graham, Gael, 1958-

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  The traumas and controversies of the 1960s?the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the pervasive antiauthoritarian spirit so evident on college campuses infiltrated American public high schools. Students challenging their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revolt and Protest

  Student Politics and Activism in sub-Saharan Africa

  Zeilig, Leo

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  The evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the recent period of 'democratic transitions' in the 1990s, Leo Zeilig discusses the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Latinos in the West

  the Student Movement and Academic Labor in Los Angeles

  Mora, Carlos, 1959-

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  This book focuses on the struggle by Latin Americans to open and maintain Chicano/a Studies programs in institutions of higher education in California. It raises critical questions for social theory about multicultural democracy, dealing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sitting in and Speaking Out

  Student Movements in the American South, 1960-1970

  Turner, Jeffrey A.

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  In Sitting In and Speaking Out , Jeffrey A. Turner examines student movements in the South to grasp the nature of activism in the region during the turbulent 1960s. Turner argues that the story of student activism is too often focused on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rebellion in Black and White

  Southern Student Activism in the 1960s

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  Rebellion in Black and White offers a panoramic view of southern student activism in the 1960s. Original scholarly essays demonstrate how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Freedom Schools

  Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

  Hale, Jon N.

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  "Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jim Crow Campus

  Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order

  Williamson-Lott, Joy Ann, 1971-

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  "This well-researched volume explores how the Black freedom struggle and the anti-Vietnam War movement dovetailed with faculty and student activism in the South to undermine the traditional role of higher education and bring about social…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Steeped in the Blood of Racism

  Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College

  Bristow, Nancy K., 1958-

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  Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1970, white members of the Jackson city police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on young people in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936-1965

  Bynum, Thomas L.

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  Historical studies of black youth activism have until now focused almost exclusively on the activities of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). However, the NAACP youth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Student Politics

  Higher Education and Apartheid

  Badat, Saleem

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  Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national higher education student political organizations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organization…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy

  Place-based Education in Philadelphia

  Dyson, Omari L.

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  The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy: Place-Based Education in Philadelphia, by Omari L. Dyson, is the first scholarly text to detail the social relief efforts of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Branch of the Black Panther…Read moreRead more of this annotation