“God Speed the Breed”: The New Negro Campus 1919–1936 Movement
摘要
As White students enjoyed their “age of flappers and bootleggers, coonskin and bathtub gin, hot jazz and new dance crazes,” the New Negro Campus Movement propagated slowly and steadily in 1919 and the early 1920s. In the spring of 1920, Wilberforce University (Wilberforce, Ohio) students learned that their Monday date time between the genders had been eliminated, and they had to walk along gendered pathways to their classes. Soon after, a short-lived rebellion gripped the campus until President William Scarborough relented. The suspension of seniors for insubordination prompted a strike in March 1921 at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina.