Sitting in and speaking out : student movements in the American South, 1960-1970 / Jeffrey A. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Jeffrey A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Student movements.

College students--Political activity--Southern States--History--20th century.

College students.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

White people--Southern States--History--20th century.

White people.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 national groups like Students for a Democratic Society and events at schools like Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. Examining the activism of black and white students, he shows that the South responded to national developments but that the response had its own trajectory-one that was rooted in race. Turner looks at such events as the initial desegregation of campuses; integration's long aftermath, as students learned to share institutions; the Black Power movement; and the antiwar movement. Escalating protest against the Vietnam War tested southern distinctiveness, says Turner. The South's tendency toward hawkishness impeded antiwar activism, but once that activism arrived, it was-as in other parts of the country-oriented toward events at national and global scales. Nevertheless, southern student activism retained some of its core characteristics. Even in the late 1960s, southern protesters' demands tended toward reform, often eschewing calls to revolution increasingly heard elsewhere. Based on primary research at more than twenty public and private institutions in the deep and upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In and Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern students navigating a remarkably dynamic era.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Southern Campuses in 1960

CHAPTER TWO. Nonviolent Direct Action and the Rise of a Southern Student Movement

CHAPTER THREE. White Students, the Campus, and Desegregation

CHAPTER FOUR. Building a Southern Movement

CHAPTER FIVE. From the Community to the Campus, from University Reform to Student Power

CHAPTER SIX. Student Power and Black Power at the South's Negro Colleges

CHAPTER SEVEN. Black Power on White Campuses

CHAPTER EIGHT. The War in the South

CHAPTER NINE. Southern Campuses at Decade's End

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612795800

9781282795808

1282795805

9780820337593

0820337595

OCLC:

676698422