Degree Name
BA
Department
History
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Defense Date
2023-06-23
Publication Date
2023-09-03
First Faculty Advisor
Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz
First Faculty Reader
Dr. Christopher Jones
Honors Coordinator
Dr. Daren Ray
Keywords
civil rights in the North, Black history, Newark, student activism, African American history, public history, Black history in New Jersey
Abstract
Although often left out of common narratives around the civil rights movement, New Jersey provides a compelling setting to examine the Black freedom struggle and how it continues into our world today. Using primary source research focused around African American youth in Montclair, Newark, Plainfield, and Princeton, I created a digital history website designed to present the pivotal role Black youth played in shaping the civil rights struggles in the mid-nineteenth century. By highlighting how youth activism in New Jersey advanced efforts for racial justice in the state and facilitated regional and national collaboration, this website helps us understand the mid-twentieth century's civil rights movement as a national, not just a Southern struggle, led by youth.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Peterson, Emily, "Vanguards of Change in the "Georgia of the North": Youth Activism in the New Jersey Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1955, A Digital History Project" (2023). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 342.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub_uht/342