A new kind of youth : historically Black high schools and southern student activism, 1920-1975 /

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Author / Creator:	Hale, Jon N., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Description:	336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African American high school students -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. African American student movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. High schools -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Segregation in education -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. African American student movements. Civil rights movements. High schools -- Social aspects. Race relations. Segregation in education. Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Southern States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12867852

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ISBN:	9781469671383 1469671387 9781469671390 1469671395 9781469671406 9781469671413
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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. 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"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781469671413

Table of Contents:

The most momentous youth development that the South has ever seen: the racialization and politicization of high school youth, 1920-1940
Behold the land: the southern high school youth movement during and after the Second World War, 1940-1950
Why don't you do something about it?: youth activism of the 1950s
Young people who were not able to accept things as status quo: youth mobilization and direct-action protest during the 1960s
If you want police, we will have them: the assault on Black students, teachers, and schools, 1969-1975.

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