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Research paper thumbnail of Nuanced Negro Studies: A Hare Perspective on the State and Nature of Black Studies Today

Siyabonana: The Journal of Africana Studies, 2023

This paper provides a critical assessment of Black Studies using the life and work of Nathan Hare... more This paper provides a critical assessment of Black Studies using the life and work of Nathan Hare as a lens of interpretation. The authors hope to honor Hare's contributions to the Black freedom struggle generally, and to the making of Black Studies specifically, while simultaneously contributing to the understanding of the discipline's history. It is argued that, within the first year of its establishment at Predominantly White Institutions, conservative forces of both White supremacist and Negro origins sabotaged Black Studies before it could make the revolutionary history it was intended to make. Specifically, it appears that conservative forces derailed the transformative potential of Black Studies by disassociating it from its origins in the Black Power Movement and hooking it anachronistically to the earlier Civil Rights __________________________________________________________________

Research paper thumbnail of From Civil Rights To Black Power: The Hidden History Of Black Community College Activism In Chicago

Global web icon JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/journal/zanjglobsoutstud Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies , 2022

During the rise of the Black Power movement, the Afro-American History Club fought for control of... more During the rise of the Black Power movement, the Afro-American History Club fought for control of Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College, by challenging the viability of the college's mostly Eurocentric curriculum for Black students. In doing so, they found themselves in public battles with Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley. As America's most powerful mayor, Daley controlled the City Colleges of Chicago campuses with a system of political nepotism that fixed Black students at the lowest rung of the educational strata. This chapter critically examines the fight between the Afro-American History Club and "Pharoah" Daley in 1967-1968. Also, it investigates the impact of Daley politics on student activism and protest at Woodrow Wilson Junior College during the growth and development of the Black Power movement.

Research paper thumbnail of Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project by J. J. Butts (review)

Rocky Mountain review, Sep 1, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College

The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community co... more The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). I will investigate how their efforts successfully demanded a Black Studies program, hired the institutions first Black administrator and first Black president, and influenced a permanent institutional name change from Woodrow Wilson Junior College to Kennedy-King College. Introducing Black community college students from Chicago as key participants in the expansion of the Black Power Movement furthers new lines of scholarly investigation, which allows a more comprehensive and complex understanding of the Black Campus and Black Power Movements. Additionally, this research aims to inject a new term, the Black Community College Campus Movement (BCCCM) into the dominant discourse on student social movements. This term represents the importance of the efforts and impact of Chicago Black community college students to demand education reform as part and parcel of the 1960s Black Campus Movement, America's Black Power Movement, and the broader history of global student social movements. iii Acknowledgements This dissertation project represents a culmination of years of mentorship and training from a village of family, friends, and others. All praise belongs to Almighty God, Allah. The example of the mandated principles of what constitutes an infinite education began in my household. The Honorable Professor Willie Dixon, Jr. sacrificed greatly for over sixty-five years to provide examples of how to use formal education to positively impact a critical mass of the Black community. I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to my loving mother who dedicated her life to me and my sibling's success and to that end I thank my sister and brother. As a product of a large extended family I thank all my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins from "Grannies Gang." I acknowledge and want to thank the role of my community, the South Side of Chicago, for each and every life lesson. Eternal gratitude to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Academically, I thank each member of my dissertation committee. Thanks to those formal educators from my earliest memories of classroom instruction. I thank the professors at Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies. Gratitude to all who took time from to challenge me to become a more comprehensive scholar. Thanks to my cohort of scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign's EPOL department. Undoubtedly, I thank those members of the Black Community College Campus Movement for your organizational savvy and strength, notably, the Negro History and Afro-American History Club at Wilson Junior College and Kennedy-King College. My greatest gratitude for this dissertation project belongs to Lou Turner from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for what he coined his "labor of love." Last but certainly not least, I wholeheartedly thank the legendary Civil Rights Attorney and Professor Lewis Myers, Jr. for decades of sacrifice, unique iv vision, and uncompromising will, which I continue to benefit greatly. I thank you and love you all!!! v

Research paper thumbnail of Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Locked in the Shadows

Research paper thumbnail of Student of Color Rebellion: A Historical Perspective

Panel Abstract In light of the current wave of student activism on university campuses, we believ... more Panel Abstract In light of the current wave of student activism on university campuses, we believe it is important to re-examine the height of campus movements during the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras. Our work begins at the close of the 1950s with the non-violent direct action of the Civil Rights Movement. Over time, student tactics evolved to include more aggressive, sometimes violent, methods. Non-violence had run its course. In contrast to the incremental change championed by their parent’s generation, students wanted immediate and tangible results. Juxtapositioned against a national landscape that included a multitude of social movements and federal mandates that sought to deal with racial unrest, we examine student activism at a small public HBCU [1] in North Carolina as well as a community college and a state university in Chicago, IL. Although the student sit-in movement began in 1960 at North Carolina AT (2) In what ways did they embrace or disavow societal expectatio...

Research paper thumbnail of Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College

The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community co... more The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). I will investigate how their efforts successfully demanded a Black Studies program, hired the institutions first Black administrator and first Black president, and influenced a permanent institutional name change from Woodrow Wilson Junior College to Kennedy-King College. Introducing Black community college students from Chicago as key participants in the expansion of the Black Power Movement furthers new lines of scholarly investigation, which allows a more comprehensive and complex understanding of the Black Campus and Black Power Movements. Additionally, this research aims to inject a new term, the Black Community College Campus Movement (BCCCM) into the dominant discourse on student social movements. This term represents the importance of the efforts and impact of Chicago Black community college students to demand education reform as part and parcel of the 1960s Black Campus Movement, America's Black Power Movement, and the broader history of global student social movements. iii Acknowledgements This dissertation project represents a culmination of years of mentorship and training from a village of family, friends, and others. All praise belongs to Almighty God, Allah. The example of the mandated principles of what constitutes an infinite education began in my household. The Honorable Professor Willie Dixon, Jr. sacrificed greatly for over sixty-five years to provide examples of how to use formal education to positively impact a critical mass of the Black community. I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to my loving mother who dedicated her life to me and my sibling's success and to that end I thank my sister and brother. As a product of a large extended family I thank all my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins from "Grannies Gang." I acknowledge and want to thank the role of my community, the South Side of Chicago, for each and every life lesson. Eternal gratitude to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Academically, I thank each member of my dissertation committee. Thanks to those formal educators from my earliest memories of classroom instruction. I thank the professors at Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies. Gratitude to all who took time from to challenge me to become a more comprehensive scholar. Thanks to my cohort of scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign's EPOL department. Undoubtedly, I thank those members of the Black Community College Campus Movement for your organizational savvy and strength, notably, the Negro History and Afro-American History Club at Wilson Junior College and Kennedy-King College. My greatest gratitude for this dissertation project belongs to Lou Turner from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for what he coined his "labor of love." Last but certainly not least, I wholeheartedly thank the legendary Civil Rights Attorney and Professor Lewis Myers, Jr. for decades of sacrifice, unique iv vision, and uncompromising will, which I continue to benefit greatly. I thank you and love you all!!! v

Research paper thumbnail of Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project by J. J. Butts (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Nuanced Negro Studies: A Hare Perspective on the State and Nature of Black Studies Today

Siyabonana: The Journal of Africana Studies, 2023

This paper provides a critical assessment of Black Studies using the life and work of Nathan Hare... more This paper provides a critical assessment of Black Studies using the life and work of Nathan Hare as a lens of interpretation. The authors hope to honor Hare's contributions to the Black freedom struggle generally, and to the making of Black Studies specifically, while simultaneously contributing to the understanding of the discipline's history. It is argued that, within the first year of its establishment at Predominantly White Institutions, conservative forces of both White supremacist and Negro origins sabotaged Black Studies before it could make the revolutionary history it was intended to make. Specifically, it appears that conservative forces derailed the transformative potential of Black Studies by disassociating it from its origins in the Black Power Movement and hooking it anachronistically to the earlier Civil Rights __________________________________________________________________

Research paper thumbnail of From Civil Rights To Black Power: The Hidden History Of Black Community College Activism In Chicago

Global web icon JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/journal/zanjglobsoutstud Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies , 2022

During the rise of the Black Power movement, the Afro-American History Club fought for control of... more During the rise of the Black Power movement, the Afro-American History Club fought for control of Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College, by challenging the viability of the college's mostly Eurocentric curriculum for Black students. In doing so, they found themselves in public battles with Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley. As America's most powerful mayor, Daley controlled the City Colleges of Chicago campuses with a system of political nepotism that fixed Black students at the lowest rung of the educational strata. This chapter critically examines the fight between the Afro-American History Club and "Pharoah" Daley in 1967-1968. Also, it investigates the impact of Daley politics on student activism and protest at Woodrow Wilson Junior College during the growth and development of the Black Power movement.

Research paper thumbnail of Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project by J. J. Butts (review)

Rocky Mountain review, Sep 1, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College

The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community co... more The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). I will investigate how their efforts successfully demanded a Black Studies program, hired the institutions first Black administrator and first Black president, and influenced a permanent institutional name change from Woodrow Wilson Junior College to Kennedy-King College. Introducing Black community college students from Chicago as key participants in the expansion of the Black Power Movement furthers new lines of scholarly investigation, which allows a more comprehensive and complex understanding of the Black Campus and Black Power Movements. Additionally, this research aims to inject a new term, the Black Community College Campus Movement (BCCCM) into the dominant discourse on student social movements. This term represents the importance of the efforts and impact of Chicago Black community college students to demand education reform as part and parcel of the 1960s Black Campus Movement, America's Black Power Movement, and the broader history of global student social movements. iii Acknowledgements This dissertation project represents a culmination of years of mentorship and training from a village of family, friends, and others. All praise belongs to Almighty God, Allah. The example of the mandated principles of what constitutes an infinite education began in my household. The Honorable Professor Willie Dixon, Jr. sacrificed greatly for over sixty-five years to provide examples of how to use formal education to positively impact a critical mass of the Black community. I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to my loving mother who dedicated her life to me and my sibling's success and to that end I thank my sister and brother. As a product of a large extended family I thank all my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins from "Grannies Gang." I acknowledge and want to thank the role of my community, the South Side of Chicago, for each and every life lesson. Eternal gratitude to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Academically, I thank each member of my dissertation committee. Thanks to those formal educators from my earliest memories of classroom instruction. I thank the professors at Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies. Gratitude to all who took time from to challenge me to become a more comprehensive scholar. Thanks to my cohort of scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign's EPOL department. Undoubtedly, I thank those members of the Black Community College Campus Movement for your organizational savvy and strength, notably, the Negro History and Afro-American History Club at Wilson Junior College and Kennedy-King College. My greatest gratitude for this dissertation project belongs to Lou Turner from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for what he coined his "labor of love." Last but certainly not least, I wholeheartedly thank the legendary Civil Rights Attorney and Professor Lewis Myers, Jr. for decades of sacrifice, unique iv vision, and uncompromising will, which I continue to benefit greatly. I thank you and love you all!!! v

Research paper thumbnail of Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Locked in the Shadows

Research paper thumbnail of Student of Color Rebellion: A Historical Perspective

Panel Abstract In light of the current wave of student activism on university campuses, we believ... more Panel Abstract In light of the current wave of student activism on university campuses, we believe it is important to re-examine the height of campus movements during the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras. Our work begins at the close of the 1950s with the non-violent direct action of the Civil Rights Movement. Over time, student tactics evolved to include more aggressive, sometimes violent, methods. Non-violence had run its course. In contrast to the incremental change championed by their parent’s generation, students wanted immediate and tangible results. Juxtapositioned against a national landscape that included a multitude of social movements and federal mandates that sought to deal with racial unrest, we examine student activism at a small public HBCU [1] in North Carolina as well as a community college and a state university in Chicago, IL. Although the student sit-in movement began in 1960 at North Carolina AT (2) In what ways did they embrace or disavow societal expectatio...

Research paper thumbnail of Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College

The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community co... more The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). I will investigate how their efforts successfully demanded a Black Studies program, hired the institutions first Black administrator and first Black president, and influenced a permanent institutional name change from Woodrow Wilson Junior College to Kennedy-King College. Introducing Black community college students from Chicago as key participants in the expansion of the Black Power Movement furthers new lines of scholarly investigation, which allows a more comprehensive and complex understanding of the Black Campus and Black Power Movements. Additionally, this research aims to inject a new term, the Black Community College Campus Movement (BCCCM) into the dominant discourse on student social movements. This term represents the importance of the efforts and impact of Chicago Black community college students to demand education reform as part and parcel of the 1960s Black Campus Movement, America's Black Power Movement, and the broader history of global student social movements. iii Acknowledgements This dissertation project represents a culmination of years of mentorship and training from a village of family, friends, and others. All praise belongs to Almighty God, Allah. The example of the mandated principles of what constitutes an infinite education began in my household. The Honorable Professor Willie Dixon, Jr. sacrificed greatly for over sixty-five years to provide examples of how to use formal education to positively impact a critical mass of the Black community. I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to my loving mother who dedicated her life to me and my sibling's success and to that end I thank my sister and brother. As a product of a large extended family I thank all my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins from "Grannies Gang." I acknowledge and want to thank the role of my community, the South Side of Chicago, for each and every life lesson. Eternal gratitude to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Academically, I thank each member of my dissertation committee. Thanks to those formal educators from my earliest memories of classroom instruction. I thank the professors at Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies. Gratitude to all who took time from to challenge me to become a more comprehensive scholar. Thanks to my cohort of scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign's EPOL department. Undoubtedly, I thank those members of the Black Community College Campus Movement for your organizational savvy and strength, notably, the Negro History and Afro-American History Club at Wilson Junior College and Kennedy-King College. My greatest gratitude for this dissertation project belongs to Lou Turner from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for what he coined his "labor of love." Last but certainly not least, I wholeheartedly thank the legendary Civil Rights Attorney and Professor Lewis Myers, Jr. for decades of sacrifice, unique iv vision, and uncompromising will, which I continue to benefit greatly. I thank you and love you all!!! v

Research paper thumbnail of Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project by J. J. Butts (review)