Nothing without a Demand: Black Power and Student Activism on North Carolina College Campuses, 1967-1973
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Welker, Michael D.
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
- Abstract
- All of this literature engages with a number of key questions about race, activism, and higher education: How do students come together to advocate for change? Why did Black Power leaders like Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X have such resonance with students? What tactics were most effective in catalyzing reform in the academy? What made black, African American, or ethnic studies programs so critical to student protesters? To what extent should students be able to control their educational destiny? What obligations do colleges and universities have to underrepresented students? What were administrators’ interests during the movement, and how did those interests shape institutional responses? This thesis touches on all of these questions in order to speak to a larger one: What characteristics of institutions of higher education explain the types of changes that followed the black campus movement? By synthesizing events at multiple campuses while keeping a fairly narrow focus on the state of North Carolina, this work will shed light on how students at three schools—elite, private Duke University; the state’s leading public school, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the state’s top historically black college, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University—organized themselves, created power, and won limited concessions that would have never seemed possible in the old dynamics of higher education.
- Date of publication
- spring 2014
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- Funding: William W. (Jr.) and Ida W. Taylor Fellowship
- Advisor
- Leloudis, James
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- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 78
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