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Campus to counter : civil rights activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963

Title

Campus to counter : civil rights activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963 / Brian Suttell.

Author

Suttell, Brian

Publication

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description

248 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of illustrations : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

This book analyzes civil rights activism in North Carolina in the early 1960s, especially among students at Shaw University, Saint Augustine's College, and North Carolina College at Durham. Their significance in challenging segregation has been underrepresented in scholarly works. These students played a crucial role in bringing the end of legal segregation and in reducing hiring discrimination. While activists proceeded from campus to lunch counters for sit-ins, their actions also represented a counter to businesspersons and politicians seeking to preserve a segregationist view of Tar Heel hospitality. The book demonstrates how academic freedom ideas gave additional ideological force to the civil rights movement and garnered support from "Research Triangle" schools North Carolina State College, Duke University, and The University of North Carolina. Many students from the "Protest Triangle" (the author's term for activists at the three HBCUs) and the "Research Triangle" viewed efforts by politicians to thwart protest participation as restrictions of their academic freedom. Despite the rich historiography on the civil rights movement and scholarly works addressing academic freedom, their connections have gone mostly unexplored. Suttell utilized extensive archival research and conducted thirty-one interviews with activists and Raleigh and Durham community members, in addition to nationally recognized civil rights leaders like Andrew Young and Wyatt Tee Walker. --

Series Statement

America's historically Black colleges and universities

Uniform Title

America's historically Black colleges and universities.

Alternative Title

Civil rights activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

Contents

Education, activism, and academic freedom in historical context -- Academic freedom and the 1960 sit-ins -- The "protest triangle" and the 1960 Youth Leadership Conference at Shaw University -- Education vs. segregation : the 1960 gubernatorial election and the reaction to the sit-ins -- Campus to counter -- Local, national, and international connections -- The legacy of the "protest triangle" activists.

Call Number

Sc E 23-980

ISBN

9780881468779
0881468770
9780881468786 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023931617

OCLC

1368267948

Author

Suttell, Brian, author.

Title

Campus to counter : civil rights activism in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, 1960-1963 / Brian Suttell.

Publisher

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

America's historically Black colleges and universities

America's historically Black colleges and universities.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-980

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