Towards A Black University
Nashville: Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1967. Offset. Side stapled, with laid in (11 x 8 ½ in.) fundraising letter from the publisher. 10pp. Very good, with substantial bumping to edge of laid in letter. Item #10449
Pamphlet written by Keith Lowe that analyzes the situation of Black higher education in the United States in the 1960s, when many universities were still effectively segregated, if no longer by law. In this essay, Lowe uses the work of DeBois and Fanon to propose a radically newHumanities education that could actually address the needs of Black people, a Black Curriculum.
This pamphlet was published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), a student organization often overshadowed by the more prominent groups of the 1960s. The SSOC organized students from every state in the South. It was committed to fighting against an overtly hostile environment, while looking to bring white students and community members into the movement for equality. Like many other New Left organizations assaulted by the state and media throughout the 1960s, the SSOC collapsed in the summer of 1969. Its legacy of struggle in the South, however, has seen a surge in scholarly research and interest.
A remarkable artifact of critical scholarship Black radical pedagogy in the 1960s South.
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