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Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

Fendrich, James Max

Paperback

Series: Suny African American Studies

Black American StudiesGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0791413241
ISBN13: 9780791413241
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 18 1993
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

What really became of the student activists who helped define the civil rights era--and what does their story tell us about race, protests, and political commitment in America?

1994 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In Ideal Citizens, James J. Fendrich offers a bracing corrective to the familiar, white-washed mythology of the 1960s. Grounded in rare longitudinal research, this book traces the lives of Black and white college students who participated in civil rights activism--and those who did not--from the heat of the movement into the political realities of the decades that followed. Beginning with the Black student sit-ins that helped launch the era, Fendrich shows that Black students were not only central to the movement but participated at higher rates than their white counterparts, challenging long-standing assumptions about who drove social change.

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