The Black Campus Movement - Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 (Paperback)

Between 1965 and 1972, African American students at upwards of a thousand historically black and white American colleges and universities organized, demanded, and protested for Black Studies, Black Universities, new faces, new ideas--a relevant, diverse higher education. Black power inspired these black students, who were supported by white, Latino, Chicana, Asian American, and Native American students. The Black Campus Movement provides the first national illumination of this intense and challenging struggle that disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. This monumental book also provides the complex context for this movement through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965. After forty years, Ibram H. Rogers finally tells the story of one of the most creative and transformative educational movements in American history.