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Black Power on Campus: Challenging the Status Quo in Chicago ‘68

2019; European Association for American Studies; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/ejas.14321

1991-9336

Caroline Rolland-Diamond,

Academic Freedom and Politics

Scholarly and popular accounts of Chicago in 1968 bring to mind images of violence that have overshadowed all forms of social and political activism in the city at that time. During the night of April 4, as news of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination spread, the West Side erupted into what had become a usual scene of black desperation. Before the night had ended, burned cars, looted stores, broken bottles, rocks, and street battles between thousands of black residents and overwhelmed polic...