Undaunted by the fight : Spelman College and the civil rights movement, 1957/1967
Harry G. Lefever (Author)
"Undaunted by the Fight is a study of a small but dedicated group of Spelman College students and faculty who, between 1957 and 1967 risked their lives, compromised their grades, and jeopardized their careers to make Atlanta and the South a more just and open society." "Lefever argues that the participation of Spelman's students and faculty in the Civil Rights Movement represented both a continuity and a break with the institution's earlier history. On the one hand their actions were consistent with Spelman's long history of liberal arts and community service yet on the other hand as his research documents, their actions represented a break with Spelman's traditional non-political stance and challenged the assumption that social changes should occur only gradually and within established legal institutions. For the first time in the eighty-plus years of Spelman's existence, the students and faculty who participated in the Movement took actions that directly challenged the injustices of the social and political status quo."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book,English, 2005
First editionView all formats and editions
Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2005
Biography
286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780865549388, 9780865549760, 0865549389, 0865549761
57594858
Movement prologue
You can always tell a Spelman girl
Breaking free
From appeal to action
Formalizing the movement
Summer maneuvers
Renewing the struggle
A struggle fit for a king
Celebrating an anniversary
Negotiating an agreement
Riding for freedom
Agonizing choice: study or action
Ain't gonna let Chief Pritchett turn me 'round
Twin issues: civil rights and peace
Dismissal
The march on Washington
Sit-ins and protests continue
Expulsion and reinstatement
Mississippi freedom summer
From Mississippi to Africa
Gender, racial, and ideological clashes
Nobel Peace Prize
Selma-to-Montgomery march
Black power
Adieu, Ruby Doris