Title We Are Worth Fighting For : a History of the Howard University Student Protest Of 1989.

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New York : New York University Press, 2019.

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Description	1 online resource (228 pages).
	Students language
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Black Power Ser. ; v. 1
	Black Power Ser.
Contents	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Contexts; 1. A Space for Black Ideas; 2. Racist Etiquette; 3. The Message; Part II: 1989; 4. A Force; 5. The Confrontation; 6. Occupation; Part III: Aftermath; 7. New Howard; 8. Nia; Coda; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Sources; Index; About the Author
Summary	We Are Worth Fighting For' is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university's appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of "conscious" hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. 'We Are Worth Fighting For' explores how black student activists-young men and women- helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s.
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Subject	Howard University -- Students -- History -- 20th century.
	Howard University.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Black Nia F.O.R.C.E.
	African American student movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
	African American student movements.
	Washington (D.C.)
	African American college students -- Political activity -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
	African American college students -- Political activity.
	African American universities and colleges -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
	African American universities and colleges.
	Students.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Myers, Joshua C. We Are Worth Fighting For : A History of the Howard University Student Protest Of 1989. New York : New York University Press, ©2019 9781479811755
ISBN	1479897345 (electronic book)
	9781479897346 (electronic book)

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