Student Radicalism And The Civil Rights Movement

The era of civil rights in the 1960s to 1970s was a time of silent protests, sit-ins and change. Included with change, however, comes the want to stop the new developing culture. This battle between advancement and stagnation created many points of history, including the civil rights movements. Both articles present the effect of civil rights movements on colleges during the 1970s as well as its influence on college campuses and the surrounding communities. In the article, “Student Radicalism and the Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama”, Gary Sprayberry, the author, expresses the obstruction to student rights on the University of Alabama campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With the civil rights movements coming to an end and the …show more content…
The author expresses this by chronologically adventing the efforts of some of the most prominent civil rights groups for the time. Mostly, the author followed the efforts of the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU) and the Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP). For the beginning of the article, Favors focuses on the reasoning behind why the groups were formed. From there, the author presented the “history” of the organizations as they merged together and split apart as well as their ultimate destruction. Favors wrote the article in order to point out the influence of the groups for their local area as well as for the rest of the civil rights movements. A point was made about how members of these groups would teach classes to the younger students as a way to spread the activist nature to the younger generation. If the kids believe in the effort, the future can be changed to correspond with the new