Date of Award
12-2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
African-American Studies
First Advisor
Cora A. Presley
Second Advisor
Jonathan Gayles
Third Advisor
Charles Jones
Abstract
Black/African American alumni from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH are collective subjects in this research. The study has sought to discern and explicate the behaviors, experiences and attitudes of former Black students, now alumni, to effectively privilege their voices and viewpoints, which were previously not included in the scholarship and literature of African American Studies or Higher Education about the historic 1960s and 1970s. Determining how alumni experienced the Black Student Movement at Ohio State during the 1960s and 1970s has been the principal objective.
Black students’ experiences and motivations were very different than popular Black Student Movement discourse suggests. Findings indicate Black students’ organized social activist behavior persisted effectively and sufficiently to be considered an example of modern social movements, worthy of respect like other social movements which have helped improve human conditions not only for themselves, but also for others including non-Black students at traditionally white institutions.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/3806863
Recommended Citation
Stanford-Randle, Greer C., "The Black Student Movement at the Ohio State University." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/3806863