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A New Kind of Youth - Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975 (Paperback)
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A New Kind of Youth - Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975 (Paperback)
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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 understudied. In 1951,
students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student
walkout and contacted the law firm of Hill, Martin, and Robinson in
Richmond, Virginia, to file one of the five pivotal court cases
that comprised the Brown v. Board decision. In 1960, twenty-four
Burke High School students in Charleston, South Carolina, organized
the first direct action, nonviolent protest in the city at the
downtown S. H. Kress department store. Months later in the small
town of McComb, Mississippi, an entire high school walked out in
protest of the conviction of a student who sat-in on a local
Woolworth lunch counter in 1961, guiding the agenda for the
historic Freedom Summer campaign during the summer of 1964. A New
Kind of Youth brings high school activism into greater focus,
illustrating how Black youth supported liberatory social and
political movements and inspired their elders across the South.
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