The Tuskegee student uprising : a history / Brian Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Brian (Brian P.), author.

Series:

Black Power Series

Black Power ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuskegee Institute--History.

Tuskegee Institute.

African American student movements--Alabama--Tuskegee--History.

African American student movements.

African American college students--Alabama--Tuskegee--History.

African American college students.

African Americans--Education (Higher)--History.

African Americans.

Black power--Alabama--Tuskegee--History.

Black power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 10 b/w illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Tuskegee Institute, one of the nation's most important historically Black colleges, is primarily known for its World War II pilot training program, a fateful syphilis experiment, and the work of its founder, Booker T. Washington. In The Tuskegee Student Uprising, Brian Jones explores an important yet understudied aspect of the campus's history: its radical student activism. Drawing upon years of archival research and interviews with former students, professors, and administrators, Brian Jones provides an in-depth account of one of the most dynamic student movements in United States history. The book takes the reader through Tuskegee students' process of transformation and intellectual awakening as they stepped off campus to make unique contributions to southern movements for democracy and civil rights in the 1960s. In 1966, when one of their classmates was murdered by a white man in an off-campus incident, Tuskegee students began organizing under the banner of Black Power and fought for sweeping curricular and administrative reforms on campus. In 1968, hundreds of students took the Board of Trustees hostage and presented them with demands to transform Tuskegee Institute into a "Black University." This explosive movement was thwarted by the arrival of the Alabama National Guard and the school's temporary closure, but the students nevertheless claimed an impressive array of victories. Jones retells these and other events in relation to the broader landscape of social movements in those pivotal years, as well as in connection to the long pattern of dissent and protest within the Tuskegee Institute community, stretching back to the 19th century. A compelling work of scholarship, The Tuskegee Student Uprising is a must-read for anyone interested in student activism and the Black freedom movement.

Contents:

Introduction: "Uppity for a Long Time"

The Contradictions of Tuskegee Institute, 1881-1960

Scholar-Activists, 1960-1965

A Center of Black Power, 1966-1967

A Black University? 1968

Conclusion: The Leadership of Black Students.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ALA Black Caucus Award, 2023 (Nonfiction)

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-0943-8

OCLC:

1334105265