The Student Protest Movement, Winter 1960 [caption title]

Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, April 1, 1960. Very good.. [2],6,xxv leaves printed on rectos only, stapled, with "Special Report" wrapper. Minor wear, light soiling. The revised edition of a special report on the student protests and sit-ins that occurred in early 1960 in the American South. The report was issued on April 1, 1960 and covers the background, principal events, legal precedents, public reaction, patterns, spread, and more related to student protests that had just taken place in February and March. The work concludes with a seven-page "Chronological Listing of the Cities in which Demonstrations Have Occurred," beginning with the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. The report opens by stating that the Greensboro protest sparked similar demonstrations in more than sixty-five Southern cities, and that "state and local law enforcement authorities showed an obvious intent to place the power of the state against the right of the Negroes to express dissent." One of the central issues, according to the text, is that the protest movement "is no longer between citizens, but has become a struggle between Negro citizens and state power."

The Southern Regional Council was established in 1944 as a majority-white interracial organization. When the council decided to publicly condemn segregation in 1949, it cost the organization about half of its membership. Thereafter the SRC was generally supportive of efforts by African Americans and others to end legal segregation. The council also issued numerous reports on various conditions or efforts to improve conditions in the South. OCLC records ten copies of the present work.