Stunning Little Dixie: Student Activism on the University of Missouri Campus and its Legacy
Dr. Brown will discuss the history of Black student activism at MU, primarily focusing on the activism right after WWII with desegregation, including the push to desegregate the Big 10 sports conference and the public accommodations work students did in Columbia (some of this will include Lincoln students since they formed clubs to talk about race during this period and Lincoln students watched MU closely during this time too). She will also discuss the formation of the Legion of Black Collegians (LBC) and other activism in the 60s and 70s with the women's rights movement emphasizing that students' voices and actions matter and what comes from these movements, e.g., the Black Studies classes, then program, then department, and Women and Gender studies classes then department.
