Black Student Activism:
A BEM photo Archive
CREDIT: AFRO AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS/GADO/GETTY IMAGES
Newspaper clipping reading, "BLACK YOUTH THE WORLD IS YOURS" from the Black Power and the Detroit High School Organizing Tradition
The Black Student Strike of 1969: Black students at UW–Madison, propelled by longstanding grievances and fresh flash points, called for a campus-wide student strike until administrators agreed to 13 demands.
“Why Not Us?” Youth Activism in the South. View of an Atlanta University Center student protest of the Vietnam War in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1970. Boyd Lewis photographs, VIS 101, Kenan Research Center.
Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school. She was one of the nine Black students whose integration into Little Rock’s Central High School was ordered by a Federal Court following legal action by NAACP
On Desegregation: A child in a Boston public school reads a book in her desegregated classroom
photo (1/2) A line of Black African American boys walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during a period of violence related to school integration on December 4, 1956.
(photo 2/2): A line of Black African American boys walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during a period of violence related to school integration on December 4, 1956.
In 1987, more than 250 U-M students from the United Coalition Against Racism blocked the Fleming Building to protest a series of widely-publicized racist events on campus and to demand an increase in black enrollment and the number of black faculty members.
in 2015 protest movements are popping up at universities across the country, with varying lists of demands. Including racist facility name changes to overhauls in student and faculty recruitment.