A New Kind of Youth
Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975
- 352 pages
- English
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A New Kind of Youth
Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975
About this book
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 of Education 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 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. The Most Momentous Youth Development That the South Has Ever Seen: The Racialization and Politicization of High School Youth, 1920–1940
- 2. Behold the Land: The Southern High School Youth Movement during and after the Second World War, 1940–1950
- 3. Why Don’t You Do Something about It?: Youth Activism of the 1950s
- 4. Young People Who Were Not Able to Accept Things as Status Quo: Youth Mobilization and Direct-Action Protest during the 1960s
- 5. If You Want Police, We Will Have Them: The Assault on Black Students, Teachers, and Schools, 1969–1975
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index