...Sex and the anxieties it presents are inextricably linked to campus life. Much of the folklore about sex in college addresses power relationships as well as erotic practices among professors and students, men and women, and same-sex partners. College students are influenced by peer pressure...

... several aspects of Ripley, including the Ripley Female Academy—later to be rechristened Stonewall College. Carter Willett “Willie” Medora Falkner Falkner Elizabeth Houston Vance “Lizzie ” Falkner William Henry Memphis Tennessee Memphis and Charleston Railroad M&C Ripley Cemetery Brown Andrew Jr...

... unearthing anything he could find that might be used to keep Kennard out of Mississippi Southern College without having to reveal its real reason, which was Kennard's race. The chapter mentions that the Sovereignty Commission and Citizens' Council felt Black conservatives hoping to preserve segregation were...

...Civil War college and university sites. Map by Charisse Gulosino. This chapter provides a foundational introduction that sets the stage for the case chapters to follow. By retelling general events that shaped the Civil War south, this opening narrative allows readers to garner insights...

...“Silas Talbert White,” c. 1861. Image courtesy of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and Archives, Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. In April of 1861, a military company of students was formed at Mississippi College to defend the American South...

...“Jesuit Father Francis Gautrelet,” n.d. Image courtesy of the Jesuit Archives and Research Center, US Central and Southern Province, Society of Jesus, St. Louis, Missouri. Spring Hill College, the first college in Alabama and the third oldest Catholic college in the nation, opened in 1830...

...This chapter examines the youth movement in Baltimore, from early NAACP college chapters to other groups in the 1960s. It looks at the NAACP’s creation of Youth Councils and College Chapters to sustain and mold the ongoing struggle and create continuity across the generations by socializing youth...

...This chapter describes Jack Reed’s 1956 speech before an all-black audience at Rust College, a Methodist college in the north Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Reed spoke about his faith and the issue of integration, and concluded with some positive words about the state of Mississippi’s economy...

... Gates provide a wealth of insights on how West African dance drumming ensembles fulfill partial ideals of liberal arts colleges. Discussion of agency of ensemble directors, a second major theme of chapter 5, touches on the desired prerequisite qualifications of directors, distills ensemble directors...

...This chapter recounts Capra’s college years at Throop College of Technology in Pasadena. The snobbery Capra had encountered at Manual Arts High School fueled his drive for acceptance in mainstream American society. Capra believed that his path to success in America was to become an engineer. He...

... focuses on voting and education with an examination of the white primary and African American resistance through via delinquent poll taxes and the re-birth of Central Mississippi College and the creation of the Kosciusko Industrial College that made Attala County the only county in the state's central...

.... Additionally, Barry aims to help her students avoid evaluative mechanisms through the use of time limits. The chapter recognizes that self-evaluation impedes creativity as it promotes perfectionism, self-doubt, shame, and fear. It elaborates on Barry's creativity strategies being imposed in a college...

...This chapter tackles how Lynda Barry's Syllabus had been taught in the college writing classroom. It starts with the creative personification of the writer's block of three known artists that have been felt by college students. The pedagogy of the Syllabus pushes...

.... The story of the establishment of the Mississippi Industrial College by the CME Church exemplifies southern blacks' collective efforts to educate their communities; it represents their continual struggle to maintain funding for their education, to govern the direction of their institutions, and to escape...

... colleges and universities due to student enlistment, the burning of buildings by Union troops, campus conversions to military barracks or army hospitals, etc. Few, however, focus completely on the Civil War South—even fewer provide detailed case examples that extol the persistence of some Southern colleges...

... bottle illnesses fighting hobo jungles death walking love female hoboes College Charities personal philosophies proselytizing survival pragmatism Casual association with the child tramps indicates that they have no more religious life than a healthy young colt. For them, it seems, sufficient...

...This chapter looks into the efforts to free Clyde Kennard. It elaborates on the establishment of the Clyde Kennard Fund. Similarly, students at Tougaloo College, a historically Black school just north of Jackson, began doing their part to free Clyde Kennard and sent a message directly to President...

...This first chapter serves as an introduction to Dave Brubeck and his wife, Iola Whitlock Brubeck, who was an equally talented artist and writer. It explores their early years together, their family life, and how they came to be advocates for human rights. Brubeck Dave Brubeck Iola College...

... in 1833 by the Georgia Baptist Convention to train Southern clergy. By the time the institution opened, state Baptist leaders, had broadened the college’s original vision to include any students desiring formal higher education. There were 39 students enrolled in that first class, only seven of whom were...

... about campus life during the Civil War is that all students either left to fight or returned home to care for their families. Moreover, it is often portrayed that colleges and universities closed their doors for the duration of the turmoil. However, many students remained. The University of Virginia...