A new kind of youth : historically Black high schools and southern student activism, 1920-1975 / Jon N. Hale.

"The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone...

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Main Author: Hale, Jon N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • The most momentous youth development that the South has ever seen: the racialization and politicization of high school youth, 1920-1940
  • Behold the land: the southern high school youth movement during and after the Second World War, 1940-1950
  • Why don't you do something about it?: youth activism of the 1950s
  • Young people who were not able to accept things as status quo: youth mobilization and direct-action protest during the 1960s
  • If you want police, we will have them: the assault on Black students, teachers, and schools, 1969-1975.