In Sitting In and Speaking Out, Jeffrey A. Turner examines student
movements in the South to grasp the nature of activism in the
region during the turbulent 1960s. Turner argues that the story of
student activism is too often focused on national groups like
Students for a Democratic Society and events at schools like
Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Examining the activism of black and white students, he shows that
the South responded to national developments but that the response
had its own trajectory one that was rooted in race. Turner looks at
such events as the initial desegregation of campuses; integration's
long aftermath, as students learned to share institutions; the
Black Power movement; and the antiwar movement. Escalating protest
against the Vietnam War tested southern distinctiveness, says
Turner. The South's tendency toward hawkishness impeded antiwar
activism, but once that activism arrived, it was as in other parts
of the country oriented toward events at national and global
scales. Nevertheless, southern student activism retained some of
its core characteristics. Even in the late 1960s, southern
protesters' demands tended toward reform, often eschewing calls to
revolution increasingly heard elsewhere. Based on primary research
at more than twenty public and private institutions in the deep and
upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In and
Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern
students navigating a remarkably dynamic era.
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