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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828000103321

Autore

Turner Jeffrey A

Titolo

Sitting in and speaking out : student movements in the American South, 1960-1970 / / Jeffrey A. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-79580-5

9786612795800

0-8203-3759-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/981097509045

Soggetti

Student movements - Southern States - History - 20th century

College students - Political activity - Southern States - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century

Whites - Southern States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Southern Campuses in 1960 -- CHAPTER TWO. Nonviolent Direct Action and the Rise of a Southern Student Movement -- CHAPTER THREE. White Students, the Campus, and Desegregation -- CHAPTER FOUR. Building a Southern Movement -- CHAPTER FIVE. From the Community to the Campus, from University Reform to Student Power -- CHAPTER SIX. Student Power and Black Power at the South's Negro Colleges -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Black Power on White Campuses -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The War in the South -- CHAPTER NINE. Southern Campuses at Decade's End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.