Full Description
"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 peace, gender equity, sexual liberation, Black Power, and the personal freedoms associated with the counterculture of the decade. Most accounts of the 1960s student movement and the New Left have been northern-centered, focusing on rebellions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and others. And yet, students at southern colleges and universities also organized and acted to change race and gender relations and to end the Vietnam War. Southern students took longer to rebel due to the south's legacy of segregation, its military tradition, and its Bible Belt convictions, but their efforts were just as effective as those in the north. "Rebellion in Black and White" sheds light on higher education, students, culture, and politics of the American south. It is edited by Robert Cohen and David J.
Snyder, the book features the work of both seasoned historians and a new generation of scholars offering fresh perspectives on the civil rights movement and many others. Contributors include: Dan T. Carter, David T. Farber, Jelani Favors, Wesley Hogan, Christopher A. Huff, Nicholas G. Meriwether, Gregg L. Michel, Kelly Morrow, Doug Rossinow, Cleveland L. Sellers Jr., Gary S. Sprayberry, Marcia G. Synnott, Jeffrey A. Turner, Erica Whittington, and Joy Ann Williamson-Lott.
Contents
Foreword. Deep South Campus Memories and the World the Sixties Made
Origins and Acknowledgments
Introduction. Prophetic Minority versus Recalcitrant Majority: Southern Student Dissent and the Struggle for Progressive Change in the 1960s
Part I: Early Days: From Talk to Action
Chapter 1. Freedom Now! SNCC Galvanizes the New Left
Chapter 2. Student Free Speech on Both Sides of the Color Line in Mississippi and the Carolinas
Chapter 3. Interracial Dialogue and the Southern Student Human Relations Project
Chapter 4. Moderate White Activists and the Struggle for Racial Equality on South Carolina Campuses
Part II: Campus Activism Takes Shape
Chapter 5. The Rise of Black and White Student Protest in Nashville
Chapter 6. Student Radicalism and the Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama
Chapter 7. Conservative Student Activism at the University of Georgia
Part III: A Cultural Revolution and Its Discontents
Chapter 8. Sexual Liberation at the University of North Carolina
Chapter 9. The Counterculture as Local Culture in Columbia, South Carolina
Chapter 10. Government Repression of the Southern New Left
Part IV: Black Power and the Legacy of the Freedom Movement
Chapter 11. North Carolina A&T Black Power Activists and the Student Organization for Black Unity
Chapter 12. Black Power and the Freedom Movement in Retrospect
Historiographical Reflections
Afterword
List of Contributors
Index
