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Direct linkWilliamson, Joy Ann – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their students played a pivotal part in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. Private HBCUs, in particular, provided foot soldiers, intellectual leadership, and safe places to meet and plan civil disobedience. Their economic and political autonomy from the state enabled the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Autonomy, Civil Rights, Educational History
