Black students demanded antiracist overhaul of universities in 1967

Evidence

When Davis arrived in southern California, she was itching to get involved in the Black Power movement. Like Black Power activists everywhere, she brought the movement to her backyard: she helped build UC San Diego’s Black Student Union. That fall, wherever there were Black students, they were building BSUs or taking over student governments, requesting and demanding an antiracist and relevant education at historically Black and historically White colleges. “The Black student is demanding … a shaking, from-the-roots-up overhaul of their colleges,” reported the Chicago Defender. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1004

Categorization

• SEED: The 1967 Black Student Union demand for ‘antiracist and relevant education’ is a direct historical ancestor of today’s campus DEI debates.
• XREF: connects to: Falwell opposed Brown and founded a segregated academy in 1967 — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 153; Black teaching was inherently political and antiracist, making segregated schools sites of revolution — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 10