Between 1963 and 1965, Bryn Mawr students participated in exchanges with Southern Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In the early stages of planning, George Edwards (Livingstone Student Council president) sent a list of articles and books for Bi-Co students to read before arriving.
Edwards’s foresight inspired us to create our own suggested reading list for Who Built Bryn Mawr?: 1960s Students Confronting Race. Below, you will find sources for further reading and some of the most valuable secondary sources we consulted in our research.
- Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
- The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia by Paul Lyons
- Offerings to Athena: 125 Years at Bryn Mawr College by Anne L. Bruder
- A College In Dispersion: Women of Bryn Mawr 1896-1975 by Anne Miller
- Intimate Communities: Representation and Social Transformation in Women’s College Fiction, 1895-1910 by Sherrie A. Innes
- Bryn Mawr College by Leo Dolesnki
- It’s Good to be a Woman: Voices from Bryn Mawr, Class of ‘62 by Allison Baker
- The Desegregated Heart by Sarah Patton Boyle
- The Journey by Lillian Smith
- The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from Founding to World War 2 by R. L. Geiger
- The Traditionally Black Institutions of Higher Education 1860 to 1982 by Susan Hill
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Beyond the blues, new poems by American Negroes by Rosey E. Pool
- What’s Wrong With The Negro College by M. Mayer
- Any James Baldwin
- Any Carl Rowans
- It’s Good to be a Woman: Voices from Bryn Mawr, Class of ‘62 by Allison Baker
- In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson
- Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Spring 1969
- No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
- Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915 by Joan Marie Johnson
- The 1960s and the Transformation of Campus Cultures by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
- The Counterrevolution on Campus: Why Was Black Studies So Controversial? by Martha Biondi
- Black At Bryn Mawr Blog
- The Birth Of The Bryn Mawr College Black Studies Program And The Herbert Aptheker Appointment by Emma Ruth Burns
- Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black student power in the late 1960s by Stefan M. Bradley
- Defining Ourselves: Name Calling in Black Studies by Patricia Reid-Merritt
- A Point of Difference: Diversity at Bryn Mawr College by Alexis De La Rosa and Lauren Footman
- Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Spring 1969
- The Black Campus Movement and the Institutionalization of Black Studies, 1965–1970 by Ibram H. Rogers
- We Were the Last of the Nice Negro Girls by Anna Deavere Smith
- Takeover of Main Building, 1969 by Claudia Lynn Thomas
- The Black Revolution On Campus by Martha Biondi
- Youth Protest in the 60s: An Introduction by Norris R. Johnson and William E. Feinberg
- Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Spring 1969
A sample of acts, films, and performers from the festival:
- Sun Ra and His Heliocentric Arkestra (a previous performance from 1960)
- The Dutchman (1966), a film based on a play of the same name by LeRoi Jones, founder of the movement
- The Cry of Jazz (1959), a documentary film about the connection between jazz and African-American history
- Obatala (2014), a documentary film about Arthur Hall, whose dance troupe performed at the festival
- The Jungle | Philly Gang Members Tell Their Own Stories (1967), a documentary film debuted at the festival
- Derek David and the Barons
- Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
- The Black Revolution On Campus by Martha Biondi
- “Student Citizen, Part I: The Civil Rights Movement.” Younger Than That Now: The Politics of Age in the 1960s by Holly V. Scott
- Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Spring 1964