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.

An 'Island Within': Black Students and Black Higher Education Prior to the Black Campus Movement  'God Speed the Breed': New Negro in the Long Black Student Movement  'Strike while the Iron is Hot': Civil Rights in the Long Black Student Movement  'March that Won't Turn Around': Formation and Development of the Black Campus Movement  'Shuddering in a Paroxysm of Black Power': A Narrative Overview of the Black Campus Movement  'A Fly in Buttermilk': BCM Organizations, Demands, Protests, and Support  'Black Jim Crow Studies': Opposition and Repression  'Black Students Refuse to Pass the Buck': Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education

'[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