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Book SynopsisSynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott
Trade ReviewThis collection makes a strong contribution to the prevailing conversation about student activism with its less-told, and often surprising, narratives from the South. -- John Blythe North Carolina Historical Review An excellent starting point for anyone wanting to understand the protests of the 1960s... Essential. Choice This quality volume is an excellent foundation for scholars eager to further complicate our understanding of 1960s activism nationally. -- Benjamin Houston Journal of American History This fine volume on southern student activism in the 1960s offers a timely reminder -- several actually -- of a troubled and not so distant past... An impressive range of well-argued, fresh contributions. -- Charles J. Holden Journal of Southern History Taken together, this collection of taut, well-organized essays reveals the contest that the decade of the 1960s was, and its memory remains... This well-balanced collection should contribute in important ways to ongoing efforts to bring greater nuance to narratives of the 1960s, the South, and the nation as a whole. -- David Taft Terry History
Table of ContentsForeword. Deep South Campus Memories and the World the Sixties Made
Origins and Acknowledgments
Introduction. Prophetic Minority versus Recalcitrant Majority: Southern Student Dissent and the Struggle for Progressive Change in the 1960s
Part I: Early Days: From Talk to Action
Chapter 1. Freedom Now! SNCC Galvanizes the New Left
Chapter 2. Student Free Speech on Both Sides of the Color Line in Mississippi and the Carolinas
Chapter 3. Interracial Dialogue and the Southern Student Human Relations Project
Chapter 4. Moderate White Activists and the Struggle for Racial Equality on South Carolina Campuses
Part II: Campus Activism Takes Shape
Chapter 5. The Rise of Black and White Student Protest in Nashville
Chapter 6. Student Radicalism and the Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama
Chapter 7. Conservative Student Activism at the University of Georgia
Part III: A Cultural Revolution and Its Discontents
Chapter 8. Sexual Liberation at the University of North Carolina
Chapter 9. The Counterculture as Local Culture in Columbia, South Carolina
Chapter 10. Government Repression of the Southern New Left
Part IV: Black Power and the Legacy of the Freedom Movement
Chapter 11. North Carolina A&T Black Power Activists and the Student Organization for Black Unity
Chapter 12. Black Power and the Freedom Movement in Retrospect
Historiographical Reflections
Afterword
List of Contributors
Index
