From Civil Rights To Black Power: The Hidden History Of Black Community College Activism In Chicago

Dixon, Frederick Douglas

doi:10.13169/zanjglobsoutstud.6.1.0005

ScienceOpen: research and publishing network

For Publishers

For Researchers

Blog
About

Search
Advanced search

292

views

recommends

If you have found this article useful and you think it is important that researchers across the world have access, please consider donating, to ensure that this valuable collection remains Open Access.

Zanj is published by Pluto Journals, an Open AcZcess publisher. This means that everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles from our international collection of social science journals. Furthermore Pluto Journals authors don’t pay article processing charges (APCs).

scite_

Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies

Volume 6, Issue 1

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: found

Is Open Access

From Civil Rights To Black Power: The Hidden History Of Black Community College Activism In Chicago

research-article

Author(s): Frederick Douglas Dixon ¹

Publication date (Electronic): 20 September 2022

Journal: Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies

Keywords: Black Power movement, education reform, ethnic interest politics, student activism

Bookmark

Abstract

During the rise of the Black Power movement, the Afro-American History Club fought for control of Chicago’s Woodrow Wilson Junior College, by challenging the viability of the college’s mostly Eurocentric curriculum for Black students. In doing so, they found themselves in public battles with Chicago’s mayor, Richard J. Daley. As America’s most powerful mayor, Daley controlled the City Colleges of Chicago campuses with a system of political nepotism that fixed Black students at the lowest rung of the educational strata. This chapter critically examines the fight between the Afro-American History Club and “Pharoah” Daley in 1967-1968. Also, it investigates the impact of Daley politics on student activism and protest at Woodrow Wilson Junior College during the growth and development of the Black Power movement.

Content

Author and article information

Journal

Title: Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies

ISSN: 2515-2149

Publication date (Electronic): 20 September 2022

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Pages: 70-92

Affiliations

[1 ] Black Studies Center, University of Wyoming, 1000 E University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071

Article

DOI: 10.13169/zanjglobsoutstud.6.1.0005

SO-VID: 3222aabb-9d95-49d6-9e09-657e874d907c

License:

Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source.

History

ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Political science,General social science,Development studies,Cultural studies

Keywords: Black Power movement,education reform,ethnic interest politics,student activism

References

Todd-Breland Elizabeth. Barbara Sizemore and the Politics of Black Educational Achievement and Community Control, 1963–1975. The Journal of African American History. Vol. 100(4):636–662. 2015. University of Chicago Press. [Cross Ref]
Oberschall Anthony R.. Rising expectations and political turmoil∗. Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 6(1):5–22. 1969. Informa UK Limited. [Cross Ref]
Hoyman Michele M., Stallworth Lamont. Participation in Local Unions: A Comparison of Black and White Members. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 40(3)1987. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]
Dixon Fredrick Douglass. Locked in the Shadows:Rise Up! p. 261–282. 2019. Michigan State University Press. [Cross Ref]
Brezis Elise S., Hellier Joël. Social mobility at the top and the higher education system. European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 52:36–54. 2018. Elsevier BV. [Cross Ref]
Benbow Mark E.. Birth of a Quotation: Woodrow Wilson and “Like Writing History with Lightning”. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Vol. 9(4):509–533. 2010. Cambridge University Press (CUP). [Cross Ref]
Baron Harold M., Stulman Harriet, Rothstein Richard, Davis Rennard. Black powerlessness in Chicago. Society. Vol. 6(1):27–33. 1968. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. [Cross Ref]
Agyepong Tera. IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: BLACK POLICEMEN COMBAT POLICE BRUTALITY IN CHICAGO, 1968–1983. The Journal of African American History. Vol. 98(2):253–276. 2013. University of Chicago Press. [Cross Ref]

Comments

Comment on this article

[1] Todd-Breland Elizabeth. Barbara Sizemore and the Politics of Black Educational Achievement and Community Control, 1963–1975. The Journal of African American History. Vol. 100(4):636–662. 2015. University of Chicago Press. [Cross Ref]

[2] Oberschall Anthony R.. Rising expectations and political turmoil∗. Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 6(1):5–22. 1969. Informa UK Limited. [Cross Ref]

[3] Hoyman Michele M., Stallworth Lamont. Participation in Local Unions: A Comparison of Black and White Members. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 40(3)1987. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]

[4] Dixon Fredrick Douglass. Locked in the Shadows:Rise Up! p. 261–282. 2019. Michigan State University Press. [Cross Ref]

[5] Brezis Elise S., Hellier Joël. Social mobility at the top and the higher education system. European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 52:36–54. 2018. Elsevier BV. [Cross Ref]

[6] Benbow Mark E.. Birth of a Quotation: Woodrow Wilson and “Like Writing History with Lightning”. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Vol. 9(4):509–533. 2010. Cambridge University Press (CUP). [Cross Ref]

[7] Baron Harold M., Stulman Harriet, Rothstein Richard, Davis Rennard. Black powerlessness in Chicago. Society. Vol. 6(1):27–33. 1968. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. [Cross Ref]

[8] Agyepong Tera. IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: BLACK POLICEMEN COMBAT POLICE BRUTALITY IN CHICAGO, 1968–1983. The Journal of African American History. Vol. 98(2):253–276. 2013. University of Chicago Press. [Cross Ref]