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Black Power on Campus The University of Illinois, 1965–75
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By Joy Ann Williamson
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(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 192. Illustrations, table, appendices, notes, index. $34.95.)
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| Scholarship on the 1960s black freedom movement is rapidly shifting from studies of civil rights to a focus on black power. Joy Ann Williamson's Black Power on Campus makes a significant contribution to this emerging trend. Using a wealth of primary sources from the University of Illinois Archives and thirty-one interviews with former students, faculty, and administrators, Williamson provides a detailed analysis of the motivations and process by which African-American student activists, as well as both black and white university administrators and faculty, negotiated campus reform. In so doing, she situates this rich material in the context of both higher-education reform and the transition from the civil rights to the black power movement. |
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