Upending the ivory tower [electronic resource] : civil rights, black power, and the Ivy League / Stefan M. Bradley.

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"Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America's most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradley, Stefan M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
African Americans > Education (Higher) > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Black power > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism in higher education > United States.
Discrimination in higher education > United States.
College integration > United States > History.
Universities and colleges > United States > History.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Surviving solitude: the travails of ivy desegregators
  • Unsettling ol' Nassau: Princeton University from Jim Crow admissions to anti-Apartheid protests
  • Bourgeois black activism: Brown University and black freedom
  • Black power and the big green: Dartmouth College and the challenges of isolation
  • Space invader: Columbia enters Harlem world
  • There goes the neighborhood: Penn's postwar expansion project
  • Blue bulldogs and Black Panthers: Yale, New Haven, and black imaginings
  • Black studies the hard way: fair Harvard makes curricular changes
  • Africana ambitions: the defense of blackness at Cornell university
  • Conclusion: welcome to the class.