Campus to counter : civil rights activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963 / Brian Suttell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suttell, Brian, author.

Series:

America's historically Black colleges and universities

America's historically Black colleges and universities.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American college students--Political activity--North Carolina--History--20th century.

African American college students.

African American student movements--North Carolina--History--20th century.

African American student movements.

Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Civil rights demonstrations.

Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Durham--History--20th century.

African Americans--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--North Carolina--Durham--History--20th century.

Segregation--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--20th century.

Segregation.

Segregation--North Carolina--Durham--History--20th century.

Academic freedom--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Academic freedom.

Physical Description:

248 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Macon : Mercer University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book analyzes civil rights activism in North Carolina in the early 1960s, especially among students at Shaw University, Saint Augustine's College, and North Carolina College at Durham. Their significance in challenging segregation has been underrepresented in scholarly works. These students played a crucial role in bringing the end of legal segregation and in reducing hiring discrimination. While activists proceeded from campus to lunch counters for sit-ins, their actions also represented a counter to businesspersons and politicians seeking to preserve a segregationist view of Tar Heel hospitality. The book demonstrates how academic freedom ideas gave additional ideological force to the civil rights movement and garnered support from "Research Triangle" schools North Carolina State College, Duke University, and The University of North Carolina. Many students from the "Protest Triangle" (the author's term for activists at the three HBCUs) and the "Research Triangle" viewed efforts by politicians to thwart protest participation as restrictions of their academic freedom. Despite the rich historiography on the civil rights movement and scholarly works addressing academic freedom, their connections have gone mostly unexplored. Suttell utilized extensive archival research and conducted thirty-one interviews with activists and Raleigh and Durham community members, in addition to nationally recognized civil rights leaders like Andrew Young and Wyatt Tee Walker. -- Back cover

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. Education, Activism, and Academic Freedom in Historical Context

3. Academic Freedom and the 1960 Sit-ins

4. The "Protest Triangle" and the 1960 Youth Leadership Conference at Shaw University

5. Education vs. Segregation: The 1960 Gubernatorial Election and The Reaction to the Sit-Ins

6. Campus to Counter

7. Local, National, and International Connections

8. Conclusion: The Legacy of the "Protest Triangle" Activists.

ISBN:

9780881468779

0881468770

OCLC:

1368267948