Image: A Black Students Union leader addresses a crowd of demonstrators in December 1968.

Websites

Abdul Alkalimat: browse the website of one of the leading figures of the movement for Black studies.  

Stefan M. Bradley: timeline of Black campus activism.

Videos and Podcasts

Agents of Change, film about the Black student campus movement. 

Martha Biondi: Discussing her book The Black Revolution on Campus, on Left of Black and on C-Span.

Stefan M. Bradley: Discussing his book, Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s.

Code Switch: The Long, Bloody Strike For Ethnic Studies.

The Conversation: Revolution Starts on Campus.

Leigh Patel discussing her book No Study Without Struggle, on PodcastOne and FreshEd.

Books

Abdul Alkalimat: The History of Black Studies.

Richard Benson: Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960–1973.

Martha Biondi: The Black Revolution on Campus.

Jacqueline Bobo, Cynthia Hudley, & Claudine Michel (editors): The Black Studies Reader.

Stefan M. Bradley:

• Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League.
• Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s.

Ibram X. Kendi: The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972.

Leigh Patel: No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education.

Fabio Rojas: From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline.

Noliwe Rooks: White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education.

Joy Ann Williamson-Lott:

•  Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order.
• Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi.

Articles

Abdul Alkalimat:

• Collection of his writings here.
• Interviewed by Russell Rickford: Black Studies, Activism, and Digital History: An Interview with Abdul Alkalimat.

Richard D. Benson II: Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College.

Stefan M. Bradley: 1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to ‘Gym Crow’ and got worldwide attention.

Code Switch: The Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever.

Abby Ellin: Meet the New Student Activists.

Jon Hale: Black Student Activism and the Ivy League.

Mike Jirik: The Radical Tradition of Student Protest.

Robin D. G. Kelley: Black Study, Black Struggle: The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

Ibram X. Kendi:

• Agents of Change: A New Documentary on Black Student Activism.
• Beholding Mizzou and the Power of Black Students.

J. T. Roane: Pedagogy for the World: Black Studies in the Classroom and Beyond.

Noliwe Rooks: The Beginnings of Black Studies.

Calvin Welch: San Francisco State Strike.

Helene Whitson: STRIKE!… Concerning the 1968-69 Strike at San Francisco State College.