Introduction.- 1. An “Island Within”: Black Students in the 19th Century.- 2. “We Were Invisible”: Black Students in the 20th Century.- 3. “Fighting Back!”: The Making of the New Negro.- 4.  “God Speed the Breed”: The New Negro Campus Movement.- 5.  “Strike While the Iron is Hot”: Early Civil Rights Student Activism.- 6. “Justice Is All We Want”: Black Students and Desegregation.- 7. “March That Won’t Turn Around”: The Making of the Black Campus Movement.- 8.  “A New Awareness”: Movement Speakers, Conferences, and Periodicals.- 9. “The Black Student is Demanding”: The Black Campus Movement, 1965-1968.- 10.  “We’re Going to Get What We Want Now”: The Black Campus Movement, 1969-1972.- 11. “A Fly in Buttermilk”: Organizations and Demands.- 12.  “A New Sense of My Black Self”: Protests and Support.- 13. “American Version of Storm Troopers”: Opposition and Repression, 1965-1968.- 14. “Black Jim Crow Studies”: Opposition and Repression, 1969-1972.- 15. “Black Students Refuse to Pass the Buck”: The Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education.- Epilogue: Backlash and Forward Lashes.

In his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provided the first national study of when Black students organized, demanded, and protested against racism in almost every US State between 1965 and 1972. The book illuminated the complex context and prehistory for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history. Based on records from more than three hundred colleges and universities, this authoritative study is essential to understanding modern American higher education. In this second edition, with a new Preface and updates throughout the text, Dr. Kendi reminds us that the antiracist higher education that the students in these pages fought for has yet to be achieved. Referring to this book as “foundational” to his antiracist research and thought, Kendi challenges us to see the parallels between then and now, and to embody the cause anew.  Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, USA, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of many books, including the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist. Time magazine has named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

Explores the history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965 Illuminates the context for the most transformative educational movement in American history Provides the first national study of the struggle that disrupted and refashioned institutions in most states between 1965 and 1972