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Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement

The 1960 sit-in movement that began in Greensboro on February 1 is a familiar story when it comes to Black

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)

The discourse on anti-racist curriculum and praxis within educational spaces—both formal and informal—saw massive growth in the summer of 2020.

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study