The Black Campus Movement

Explores the history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965Illuminates the context for the most transformative educational movement in American historyProvides the study of the struggle that disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state

This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging antiracist struggle which disrupted and refashioned colleges and universities in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of Black higher education and Black student activism before 1965.

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, USA, and one of the main intellectual voices in the BLM movement. He was included in Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2020, he has 385,000 followers on Twitter and 1.1 million on Instagram, and his book How to Be an Antiracist was a New York Times no. 1 bestseller.