“Movements Come and Go and Are Soon Forgotten”: The Black Campus Movement at Fayetteville State, 1966-1972

Broad surveys of college student activism are impossible without the study individual campuses. Studies on historically Black and university (HBCU) campuses in United States tend to focus larger more well-known or those large urban areas. within North Carolina repeatedly highlight only three eleven extant institutions. This contributes historiography campus by using nine oral history interviews conducted with alumni paired extensive archival research excavate ways Fayetteville State University students contributed Campus Movement. essay is a narrative protests between 1966 1972. Ultimately, such were grounded major breakdowns meaningful communication faculty, administrators, alumni, HBCU students’ shared desire have say decisions that affected their lives. State’s body fully invoked James Baldwin’s notion critiquing America they loved institution than any other world, and, exactly for reason, insisted right criticize demanded she rise occasion which was formed.