MALCOLM X: THE CONFERENCE

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Campus Racism and the Rebirth of Militant Black Student Activism 

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X, Talks To Your People (1991)

Discussion Questions

1. Why should black students never forget the names Sammy Younge, Jr., Samuel Hammond, Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith?
2. Compare the Southern Negro Young Congress (SNYC) with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
3. Discuss the two aspects of the strike at Columbia University in 1968 - Hamilton Hall and the Black Students and the general white student takeover.
4. Why should students all over the world study 1968?
5. Will it be possible to have another Freedom Summer in which large numbers of college youth go into the inner cities as they did into Mississippi in the 1960's?


Additional Reading  

1. Vivien Morris, ed., Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around: The Birth and Development of The Black Student Movement (1991, Freedom Road Socialist Organization)
2. James Forman, Sammy Younge, Jr.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement (Grove Press 1968)
3. Jack Nelson and Jack Bass, The Orangeburg Massacre (new York: Ballantine Books, 1970)
4. George Katsiaficas, The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 (Boston: South End Press, 1987)
5. Dough McAdam, Freedom Summer (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)
 

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