This well-researched volume explores how the Black freedom struggle and the anti–Vietnam War movement dovetailed with faculty and student activism in the South to undermine the traditional role of higher education and bring about social change. It offers a deep understanding of the vital importance of independent institutions during times of national crisis.
*2018 Foreword Reviews Indies Finalist in the Education category.
Joy Ann Williamson-Lott is a professor of the history of education at the University of Washington College of Education, co-editor of the History of Education Quarterly, and author of Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi.