An End of Innocence: African-American High School Protest in the 1960s and 1970s

Autor/inn/en	Rury, John L.; Hill, Shirley
Titel	An End of Innocence: African-American High School Protest in the 1960s and 1970s
Quelle	In: History of Education, 42 (2013) 4, S.486-508 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2013.819126
Schlagwörter	Educational History; African American Students; African American Teachers; Principals; Teacher Selection; African American History; Secondary School Teachers; High School Students; Social Action; School Desegregation; Activism; Civil Rights; Geographic Regions; Conflict; Equal Education; Educational Change; Organizations (Groups) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Principal; Schulleiter; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Soziales Handeln; Integrative Schule; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Konflikt; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This paper considers African-American student protests in secondary schools during the 1960s and early 1970s. Taking a national perspective, it charts a growing sense of independence and militancy among black students as they made the schools a focal point of activism. Activist students challenged established civil rights organisations on a variety of questions. They also engaged in an escalating series of protest activities to make schools change. Much of this focused on curricular change, particularly adding black history courses and hiring African-American teachers and principals. Generally, these protests proved quite successful. Black students also protested against conditions encountered in integrated schools, where they often met hostility from whites. Distinct regional patterns characterised such activities, with more protest over school issues in the North and greater conflict regarding desegregation in the South. By the mid-1970s the era of black secondary student protest concluded, although its legacy continues to live. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10