Recollections of activism

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I taught American history at two quite different institutions of higher education: Hampton Institute (an African American college) and Vassar College (an overwhelmingly white, upper class women’s college). Despite their disparate social constituencies, however, both schools underwent a surge of social protest in which I was a central participant. This protest is described in my autobiography, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2012), which has just been published by the University of Tennessee Press. What follows is a revised version of the account appearing in that book

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