The Education of a Black Radical

Download or read book The Education of a Black Radical written by D’Army Bailey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D'Army Bailey was the freshman class president at Southern University when four black college students refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's on February 1, 1960. Their action set off a wave of similar protests among black college students across the South, including D'Army Bailey and his classmates at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Education of a Black Radical details Bailey's experiences on the front lines of the black student movement of the early 1960s, providing a rare firsthand account of the early days of America's civil rights struggle.