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Book SynopsisThough most scholarship about 1960s-era student activism focuses on the East and West Coasts, Oklahoma's college campuses did see significant activism. Sarah Eppler Janda fills a gap in the record by connecting the activism of Oklahoma students and the experience of hippies to a state and a national history from which they have been absent.
Trade ReviewSimply by hunting down and interviewing dozens of the leading figures from the 1960s, Sarah Eppler Janda has done enough to make this an important book. But she offers even more, placing the story of Oklahoma's student activism and counterculture in national and regional contexts, and telling this story with exemplary economy, superb organization, admirable clarity, and her own intelligent and revealing insight.
Prairie Power opens up a hitherto ignored aspect of Oklahoma history."" - David W. Levy, author of
The Debate over Vietnam, 2nd edition, and
The University of Oklahoma: A History""The campus activists and hippies Janda describes were not fictional rebels but real people who dared to challenge local, state, and national norms and values.
Prairie Power is about the intersection of beliefs - regarding war, classism, xenophobia, and racism - and about how students and their allies who, through face-to-face encounters with their adversaries, became effective twentieth-century social justice provocateurs."" - George Henderson, author of
Race and the University: A Memoir
