Troublemakers: Students' Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s
Contributor(s): Schumaker, Kathryn (Author)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York University Press
Pub Date: July 02, 2019
ISBN: 1479875139
EAN: 9781479875139
Troublemakers traces the history of black and Chicano student protests from small-town Mississippi to metropolitan Denver and beyond, showcasing the stories of individual protesters and demonstrating how their actions contributed to the eventual recognition of the constitutional rights of all students. Offering a fresh interpretation of this pivotal era, Troublemakers shows that when black and Chicano teenagers challenged racial discrimination in American public schools, they helped remake American constitutional law and establish protections of free speech, due process, equal protection, and privacy for students.