Virtual Lunch and Learn: Striking for Racial Justice

On Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9, university faculty and graduate students across the country joined in a #ScholarStrike to protest police brutality and call for racial equity and justice. Dr. Bobby Donaldson and Jennifer Melton of the Center for Civil Rights History joined Dr. Ramon Jackson, African American Heritage Coordinator, South Carolina State Department of Archives and History for a conversation on the history of strikes and collective action for racial justice in South Carolina, including the 1969 Voorhees Takeover and Charleston Hospital Workers Strike.
At the end of the conversation, Dr. Jackson suggested a book list to learn more:
Jack Bass, The Orangeburg Massacre (Mercer Univ. Press, 1996).
Martha Biondi, The Black Revolution on Campus (Univ. of California Press, 2012)
Burton and Moore, eds. Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century (USC Press, 2008).
Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020).
Jelani Favors, Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (UNC Press, 2019).
Gregg L. Michel, Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ​
Ibram Rogers (Ibram X. Kendi), The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Sellers and Terrell, eds. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC (Univ. of MS Press, 1990).
Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order (New York: Teachers College Press, 2018).
Joy Ann Williamson, Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi (New York: Teachers College Press, 2008).
Joy Ann Williamson, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003).