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Sitting in and speaking out : student movements in the American South, 1960-1970 /
Jeffrey A. Turner argues that the story of student activism during the 1960s 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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Jeffrey A. Turner argues that the story of student activism during the 1960s 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. "Turner has tackled a neglected but very important subject. His book makes enormous contributions to our understanding of recent southern history, higher education, race, the New Left, the 1960s, and student activism."--Robert Cohen, author of Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s "While others have written about the white student movement in the South or the black movement in the region, Turner masterfully treats both topics in his important new book ... His book will make an important and lasting contribution to the study of the South, student activism, and the 1960s."--Gregg L. Michel, author of Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969 --Book Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 347 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820337593 0820337595 1282795805 9781282795808 9786612795800 6612795808 0820335932 9780820335933 |