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Black Students and Black Liberation

Stokely Carmichael, Chairman of SNCC, talking from the hood of a car on the campus of Florida A&M in 1967.
Stokely Carmichael, Chairman of SNCC, talking from the hood of a car on the campus of Florida A&M in 1967.

This blog examines the ways Black students have influenced the direction of Black liberation struggles in the United States.

Note: This blog was compiled by and reprinted with the permission of Abdul Akailmat, PhD

Using the Sankofa Principle for the struggle today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankofa

Southern Negro Youth Congress (1937-1948) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Negro_Youth_Congress#First_Assembly

Black Campus Movement in Higher Education, 1965-72 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJ6cLKoyy4

Black Revolution on campus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTRYZyj00OI

On the Black Student Movement, 1960-1970 https://tinyurl.com/4wjdzmpt

San Francisco State 1968 Student Strike https://tinyurl.com/7v7e54p8

Student origin of the Black Panther Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54wYflGYMrw

National Association of Black Students https://tinyurl.com/yuc6kfs2

SOBU/YOBU https://tinyurl.com/ew7ztz9a

February First Movement https://tinyurl.com/h5y4v8h5

People's College https://tinyurl.com/2ukjv5ec/

Black Liberation Collective http://www.blackliberationcollective.org/our-demands

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