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The Tuskegee Student Uprising - A History (Hardcover)
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The Tuskegee Student Uprising - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Black Power
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BCALA 2023 Nonfiction Award Winner The untold story of a dynamic
student movement on one of the nation’s most important
historically Black campuses The Tuskegee Institute, one of the
nation’s most important historically Black colleges, is primarily
known for its World War II pilot training program, a fateful
syphilis experiment, and the work of its founder, Booker T.
Washington. In The Tuskegee Student Uprising, Brian Jones explores
an important yet understudied aspect of the campus’s history: its
radical student activism. Drawing upon years of archival research
and interviews with former students, professors, and
administrators, Brian Jones provides an in-depth account of one of
the most dynamic student movements in United States history. The
book takes the reader through Tuskegee students’ process of
transformation and intellectual awakening as they stepped off
campus to make unique contributions to southern movements for
democracy and civil rights in the 1960s. In 1966, when one of their
classmates was murdered by a white man in an off-campus incident,
Tuskegee students began organizing under the banner of Black Power
and fought for sweeping curricular and administrative reforms on
campus. In 1968, hundreds of students took the Board of Trustees
hostage and presented them with demands to transform Tuskegee
Institute into a “Black University.” This explosive movement
was thwarted by the arrival of the Alabama National Guard and the
school’s temporary closure, but the students nevertheless claimed
an impressive array of victories. Jones retells these and other
events in relation to the broader landscape of social movements in
those pivotal years, as well as in connection to the long pattern
of dissent and protest within the Tuskegee Institute community,
stretching back to the 19th century. A compelling work of
scholarship, The Tuskegee Student Uprising is a must-read for
anyone interested in student activism and the Black freedom
movement.
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