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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Stefan M. Bradley, âUpending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy Leagueâ (NYU Press, 2018)
Description: The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient EightâHarvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornellâare American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nationâs and the worldâs leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces. In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the black freedom movement and educatio...