Upending the ivory tower : civil rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League

Author

Stefan M Bradley

Call Number

• 323.1196 B8118 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Physical Description

xvi, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

• Foreword / Gerald Horne
• Preface
• Introduction
• 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.