Cohen, Robert and Synder, David J., ed. Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Summary
This collection of essay reveals, contrary to extensive scholarship that has focused on Northern campuses, that “on both black and white college campuses south of the Mason-Dixon line, there was, in the 1960s, a '''considerable liberal and radical ferment and a southern New Left was active. '''Student activists in the south agitated for racial integration, gender equality, birth control, the end of the Vietnam War, student rights, labor’s right to organize, the introduction of black studies, and great African American student and faculty representation on campus. These protests radically altered the culture and politics of some of the historical white southern campuses and HBCUs. These essays make important arguments to consider:While most scholarship has focused on the killings at Kent State, more deaths occurred in the South, at HBCUs, then in the North as a result of protest and direct action campaigns (SC State College, NC A&T, and Jackson State). In the case of SNCC, Cohen writes, most historians have focused on their off campus activities, ignoring the “student” part in the name and the impact it had on southern college campuses. Moreover, they have failed to define who SNCC was and “has left the public almost clueless with regard to what made early SNCC so distinctive.” (8) By bringing in the perpective of the South, it forces scholars to challenge accepted narratives and assumptions about the movements in the 1960s.

Examples: National Student Association brought white and black students together for Human Relations seminar, many of which would got on to be leading activists during the sit-in movements and with SNCC.; NC A&T - center of the southern Black Power movement, and gave birth to a new national group, the Student Organization for Black unity, “that would, in its campus Black power organizing, pick up where SNCC left off.”

See also: Peter Wallerstein, Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement; Martha Biondi, The Black Revolution on Campus; Kenneth Heineman, Campus Wars