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Offers a rare view inside the university boardroom, uncovering the vital role Black women educational leaders have played in ensuring access and equity for all.Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action examines the leadership strategies that Black women educators have employed as influential power brokers in predominantly white colleges and universities in the United States. Author Donna J. Nicol tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Claudia H. Hampton, the California State University (CSU) system's first Black woman trustee, who later became the board's first woman chair, and her twenty-year fight (1974–94) to increase access within the CSU for historically marginalized and underrepresented groups. Amid a growing white backlash against changes brought on by the 1960s Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, Nicol argues that Hampton enacted "sly civility" to persuade fellow trustees, CSU system officials, and state lawmakers to enforce federal and state affirmative action mandates.Black Woman on Board explores how Hampton methodically "played the game of boardsmanship," using the soft power she cultivated amongst her peers to remove barriers that might have impeded the implementation and expansion of affirmative action policies and programs. In illuminating the ways that Hampton transformed the CSU as the "affirmative action trustee," this remarkable book makes an important contribution to the history of higher education and to the historiography of Black women's educational leadership in the post-Civil Rights era.

Affirmative action programs in education --- African American women college administrators --- College trustees --- Discrimination in higher education --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- Affirmative Action. --- Black Power. --- Black activism. --- Black cultural politics. --- California State University. --- Civil Rights Act. --- Civil Rights Movement. --- Claudia Hampton. --- Educational activism. --- Equity. --- US Education. --- History.

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This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.

African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- African American civil rights workers --- Civil rights workers --- Civil rights --- History --- Mississippi --- Greenwood (Miss.) --- Race relations --- african american studies. --- against the odds. --- american south. --- biographical. --- black activism. --- black rights. --- civil rights history. --- civil rights. --- democracy. --- discussion books. --- emancipation. --- generational. --- higher education. --- history. --- human rights. --- movement literature. --- overcoming obstacles. --- political. --- race and prejudice. --- racism. --- school setting. --- university textbook. --- uplifting stories. --- we shall overcome.

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Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging and Civil Rights examines the construction of blackness within shifting post-civil rights, post-colonial and neo-colonial contexts. It examines understudied locations and protagonists, and it articulates the necessarily ambiguous aspirations, goals, protest rationales and strategies associated with the reclamation of agency and the affirmation of self. In this volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern "bulwarks" of the civil rights movement; and diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many-faceted struggle for recognition and belonging. The essays assembled in Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles are salient and timely. The volume helps to contextualize the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. By critically reading and connecting different Black experiences in various global regions, cultures, and communities, this volume pushes beyond the usual case studies of the American Civil Rights struggle. In doing so, it offers fresh perspectives on familiar concepts such as activism and belonging, suggesting more innovative approaches for the study of African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

Black people --- Social conditions. --- Blacks --- Charleston, South Carolina --- black diaspora --- Civil Rights --- African American Theatre --- Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World --- Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane --- Black struggle --- Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century --- Afro-Chilean --- Diaspora --- Global Identities, Black Nationalism --- Black Identities --- Blackness --- Black --- Calixthe Beyala's Le Petit Prince de Belleville --- Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette --- displacement --- identity, struggle and belonging --- Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America --- 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago's Northern Suburbs --- La Métrople --- Black activism --- La Métropole