Negro College Students' Participation in Sit-Ins

Authors

Ruth Searles, University of North Carolina
J. Allen Williams Jr., University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

3-1962

Comments

Published in SOCIAL FORCES 40:3 (March 1962), pp. 215-220.

Abstract

Socioeconomic and legal changes in the position of southern Negroes have been accompanied by a changing pattern of race relations and a new attitude on the part of Negro leaders. Data from a closed-answer questionnaire administered to students in three Negro colleges in North Carolina support the hypothesis that sit-in protests are less indicative of social alienation among Negroes than of their identification with or positive reference to the white middle class.