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Hawkins, B. Denise – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
On the night of Feb. 8, 1960, J. Charles Jones, then a student of religion and psychology at Johnson C. Smith University, knew instinctively what it was he needed to do for his generation. He first met with a handful of other classmates and friends, letting them know what he had just learned on the radio--other Black students in neighboring…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Higher Education, African American Leadership, African Americans
Stuart, Reginald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
When leaders of the NAACP gather this month to formally begin a year-long recognition of 100 years of civil rights work, they'll be talking as much about the organization's future as they will be honoring its past. On dozens of college campuses across the nation, where plenty of groups have taken on justice issues that for decades only the NAACP…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Youth Employment, Campuses, Civil Rights
Bellamy, L. G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1970
A forecast of actions of the Supreme Court in the seventies based upon the impact of the Court's decisions on the American educational system in the sixties. (MF)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Liberties, Minority Groups, Private Schools
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Jensen, Richard J.; Abeyta, Cara J. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1987
Assesses the efforts of Asian-American activists who, during the l960s and l970s, initiated local movements to raise ethnic consciousness and alter majority attitudes. Examines the implications of their experience for a revised understanding of movement rhetoric. Proposes the refinement of theories on social movements through the addition of a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activism, Asian Americans, Communication Research