The agency of students involved in desegregation court cases has been marginalized in pre-1960s civil rights historiography, but not nearly as much as the Black campus activism that snatched headlines almost every year during the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. A three-year battle for the first Black professor at City College of New York resulted in the hiring of Max Yergan to teach “Negro History and Culture” in the fall of 1937. Upon the imposition of an earlier curfew for women students at Wilberforce University in 1938, several hundred (mostly male) students boycotted classes and rampaged through campus, hurling rocks at windows and lights until sheriffs arrived and the nine “ringleaders” were expelled. In 1939, Allen University students struck for two weeks, demanding the resignation of the “illegally” installed new president of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina; a violent strike at North Carolina A&T State University followed the dismissal of the football coach; and Hampton students vacated classes for five days, angered by the White president and English department chair’s unexplained firing of a Black professor.