TY - DATA AU - Myers,Joshua M. TI - We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 T2 - Black Power SN - 9781479897346 AV - LC2851.H84 U1 - 378.1/982996073 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY PB - New York University Press KW - African American college students KW - Political activity KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African American student movements KW - African American universities and colleges KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Administration Building KW - American national politics KW - Black Nia F.O.R.C.E KW - Black Power KW - Black campus activism KW - Black nationalist ethos KW - Black political struggle KW - Black radicalism KW - Black youth movements KW - Charter Day Convocation KW - James Cheek KW - Jesse Jackson KW - Lee Atwater KW - Ras Baraka KW - anti-apartheid movement KW - campus politics KW - cultural programs KW - direct action KW - hip hop KW - historically Black colleges and universities KW - nationalist philosophy KW - on-campus struggles KW - philosophy of struggle KW - presidential campaigns KW - student activism N1 - restricted access N2 - The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists-young men and women- helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479897346.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479897346 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479897346/original ER -