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082 0 4 _a378.1213
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBradley, Stefan M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUpending the Ivory Tower :
_bCivil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League /
_cStefan M. Bradley.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_b15 black and white illustrations
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWinner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black StudiesFinalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History SocietyWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education SocietyThe inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America's leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell-are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation's and the world's leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces. In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the black freedom movement and educational reform. 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 rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools. This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. Putting their status, and sometimes even their lives, in jeopardy, black activists negotiated, protested, and demonstrated to create opportunities for the generations that followed. The enrichments these change agents made endure in the diversity initiatives and activism surrounding issues of race that exist in the modern Ivy League. Upending the Ivory Tower not only informs the civil rights and Black Power movements of the postwar era but also provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today's activists than those who transformed our country's past and paved the way for its future.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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653 _aA Better Chance program.
653 _aAAS.
653 _aASRC.
653 _aAfro-American Society.
653 _aAfro-American Studies program.
653 _aAfro-American Studies.
653 _aAfro.
653 _aAlpha Phi Alpha.
653 _aAmerican Housing Act of 1949.
653 _aAncient Eight.
653 _aAssociation of Black Collegians.
653 _aBlack Bottom.
653 _aBlack Panther Party for Self Defense.
653 _aBlack Power Movement.
653 _aBlack Student Alliance at YaleBlack Coalition.
653 _aBlack Student Power.
653 _aBlack Studies.
653 _aBoulé.
653 _aCarl A. Fields.
653 _aCivil Rights Movement.
653 _aCommittee on Afro-American Studies.
653 _aCommittee on Civil Rights.
653 _aCongdon Street Baptist Church.
653 _aEthnic Studies.
653 _aFoundation Years.
653 _aHarlem.
653 _aHarvard.
653 _aIvy League.
653 _aJim Crow North.
653 _aJohn Sloan Dickey.
653 _aMantua.
653 _aMay Day.
653 _aMcClane Report.
653 _aMorningside Heights.
653 _aNational Medical Association.
653 _aNational Scholarship and Service Fund for Negro Students Trustees' Committee on Equal Opportunity.
653 _aNiagara movement.
653 _aNigresence.
653 _aPWIs.
653 _aPembroke College.
653 _aPhiladelphia.
653 _aProject Double DiscoveryUpward Bound.
653 _aROTC.
653 _aRaymond Heffner.
653 _aRobert Goheen.
653 _aRosovsky Committee.
653 _aShabazz Center.
653 _aSigma Pi Phi.
653 _aSouth Africa.
653 _aStraight Hall.
653 _aStudents for a Democratic Society.
653 _aUniversity City Science Center.
653 _aV-12 Navy College Training Program.
653 _aVice Lords.
653 _aVietnam.
653 _aWari House.
653 _aWoodrow Wilson.
653 _aaffordable housing.
653 _aapartheid.
653 _ablack freedom movement.
653 _ablack intelligentsia.
653 _ablack students.
653 _acritical race theory.
653 _adesegregators.
653 _adiversity.
653 _aeating clubs.
653 _aexpansion.
653 _ainterest convergence theory.
653 _akey functionary theory.
653 _apredominantly white institutions.
653 _aurban renewal.
653 _awhite flight.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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