A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975

by Jon N. Hale

Book Overview

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied.

In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student walkout and contacted the law firm of Hill, Martin, and Robinson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469671395
• ISBN13: 9781469671390
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"