In 'The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History,' out Oct. 4, Brian Jones, a scholar at the New York Public Library, zeros in on an uprising at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute
in Memphis just two days earlier. The National Guard had been deployed to demonstrations in cities, and the Alabama Governor sent the state’s National Guard to respond to the situation on Tuskegee’s campus.
Before swarming the meeting, students had tried to convey their demands by appealing to Tuskegee’s all-Black leaders in writing, but change was not coming quickly enough.
At first, Tuskegee responded by shutting down campus and making students reapply for admission, in the hopes of weeding out the radical “troublemaker” students, a local TV station reported at the time. But in the end, administrators met students at the negotiating table, and their dramatic action ultimately led to the implementation of nearly all of their demands.
Jones hopes his book on Tuskegee students’ bold activism would re-center Tuskegee as a pioneer in modernizing higher education and highlight its place as a site of campus activism during theyear that was 1968. In today’s era of increased scrutiny of how U.S.
“Black people’s education and Black history as a topic have always operated under threats of censorship and violent suppression,” says Jones. He says he also wrote this book to show that “the Tuskegee student uprising is one part of a long pattern of Black people fighting to expand the horizons of learning in this country.”
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