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Book SynopsisCharts the evolution of black consciousness on predominately white American campuses during the critical period between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, with the Black student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign serving as an illuminating microcosm of similar movements across the country.
Trade Review"A superbly written historical study focusing on one of the most controversial periods in American higher education reform."--
Education Review"Williamson has made a very worthwhile contribution to our understanding of a complex, turbulent chapter in American higher education. She provides an essential background for the period she explores, a well researched and sensitive description of Black activism as it found expression on campus between 1965 and 1975. Equally interesting is her analysis of the sharp decline in activism by the mid-1970s"--Richard P. McCormick, author of
The Black Student Protest Movement and Rutgers"Offers a rich and complex view of the various ways black students sought to construct their social, political and racial identities, while helping to, in part, reform the University of Illinois for future generations of racially underrepresented students."--
History of Education Quarterly"Frank, well-reasoned, and appropriately multifaceted. . . . An important case study, and a fine historical analysis."--
Journal of African American History
