The Black Campus Movement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 1-7

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3. An “Island Within”: Black Students and Black Higher Education Prior to 1965

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 9-28

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4. “God Speed the Breed”: New Negro in the Long Black Student Movement

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 29-47

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5. “Strike While the Iron Is Hot”: Civil Rights in the Long Black Student Movement

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 49-65

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6. “March That Won’t Turn Around”: Formation and Development of the Black Campus Movement

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 67-87

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7. “Shuddering in a Paroxysm of Black Power”: A Narrative Overview of the Black Campus Movement

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 89-106

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8. “A Fly in Buttermilk”: Black Campus Movement Organizations, Demands, Protests, and Support

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 107-125

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9. “Black Jim Crow Studies”: Opposition and Repression

   • Ibram X. Kendi

   Pages 127-143

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10. “Black Students Refuse to Pass the Buck”: The Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education

    • Ibram X. Kendi

    Pages 145-159

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11. Epilogue: Backlash and Forward Lashes of the Black Campus Movement

    • Ibram X. Kendi

    Pages 161-169

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12. Correction to: The Black Campus Movement

    • Ibram X. Kendi

    Pages C1-C1

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13. Back Matter

    Pages 171-235

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This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.

• American History
• education
• higher education
• student movement

'[Rogers] develops a compelling case that black students changed the racial dynamics of American colleges and universities Rogers has made a major contribution by rendering this historic movement comprehensive so future generations can appreciate how its creative forces changed higher education.' Journal of American History

'Rogers has written a powerful account of the role of black student movements in US higher education from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. The most impressive aspect of Rogers's work is his prodigious archival research. This is an important study. Highly recommended.' - CHOICE

IBRAM X. KENDI is an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY College at Oneonta in upstate New York, USA. He has published essays on the Black Campus Movement, black power, and Africana Studies in several journals, including the Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Social History, Journal of African American Studies, Journal of African American History, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. He has earned research fellowships from the American Historical Association, Chicago's Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum.

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