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Protests and Pushback: Women's Rights, Student Activism, and Institutional Response in the Deep South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

Timothy Reese Cain  and
Rachael Dier
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Abstract

Pivoting around two sit-ins at the University of Georgia, this article examines student activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US South. The first sit-in, at the conclusion of the spring 1968 March for Coed Equality, was part of the effort to overcome parietal rules that significantly restricted women's rights but left men relatively untouched. The second occurred in 1972 when the university responded to salacious allegations of immorality in women's residence halls by replacing progressive residential education programming with the policing of student behavior. This article centers student efforts for women's rights, demonstrates how students and administrators shifted tactics in reaction to external stimuli, and explores the repercussions of challenging the entrenched patriarchal power structure. In so doing, it joins the growing literature complicating understandings of student activism in the era by focusing attention away from the most famous and extreme cases.

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higher educationstudent protestactivismparietal ruleswomen's rights
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 2020 , pp. 546 - 580
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Copyright © 2020 History of Education Society

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95 “Will the Profs Flunk?” Savannah (GA) Morning News, April 18, 1968, 4A.

96 Mrs. Dewey Holland, “Sit-Ins Disgusting,” Lavonia (GA) Times and Gauge, April 25, 1968, 2.

97 K. B. Fincher and Joan Roberts to Fred C. Davison, April 25, 1968, folder 16, box 54, Davison Papers.

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99 Vera Featherree to Fred C. Davison, April 12, 1968, folder 16, box 54, Davison Papers.

100 O. Suthern Sims Jr. to Boyd McWhorter, April 17, 1968, folder 9, box 55, Davison Papers.

101 Fred Davison to U. GA Foundation Trustees, n.d. [1968], folder 9, box 55, Davison Papers.

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103 George Harper and Gary Yetter, “Harris Gives Views on Rights,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 14, 1968, 4; On the higher education and social control in the South, see McCandless, Past in the Present; and Williamson-Lott, Jim Crow Campus.

104 “Faculty Committee Motions Ok'd by University Council,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), July 10, 1968, 2; and “Administration to Make Major Changes in Rules; New Coed Staffers Due,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), July 10, 1968, 1.

105 See, for example, “U. of Georgia Eases Rules on Curfews and Drinking,” New York Times, July 20, 1968, 28; Philip Gailey, “Athens Coed Restrictions Liberalized,” Atlanta Constitution, July 20, 1968, 1; and “Student Power: No More Curfew for Dixie Belles,” National Observer (Washington, D.C.), July 29, 1968, 1.

106 Thomas Brahana and David Meade Feild, “A Report to the Faculty by the Student Affairs Committee of the AAUP,” May 27, 1968, folder 58, box 41, Tate Papers.

107 Rebecca Leet, “Work Produced Changes,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Sept. 27, 1968, 5; and Bob Ingle, “Never the Same,” Athens (GA) Banner-Herald, April 28, 1968, 1, 6.

108 Gailey, “Athens Coed Restrictions Liberalized”; and Ginger Hames and Clark Goodwin, “Coeds Hail Relaxed Rules,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, July 21, 1968, 25A.

109 John S. Conwell, “Protestors Comment,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Aug. 7, 1968, 4.

110 “Statement on Disruptive and Obstructive Behavior,” folder 15, box 128, Davison Papers; Achsah Nesmith, “Disruptive Protests Banned at All Colleges by Regents,” Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 10, 1968, 1; and “Georgia Colleges Quietly Take in Stride Regents’ Ban on Disruptive Protests,” New York Times, Oct. 13, 1968, 49.

111 See, for example, Jo Ann Rock, “Campus Chest Drive to Face Opposition,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Oct. 3, 1968, 1; and Philip Gailey, “Activists Getting Ready for Next Confrontation,” Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 10, 1968, 21.

112 See, for example, “Vandals Strike Building,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 11, 1969, 1; Jon Ham, “Police Seek ROTC Arsonist,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), March 8, 1972, 1; Phil Gailey, “Blacks List Demands in University Rally,” Atlanta Constitution, April 18, 1969, 6; and “Pro-UGA Petition,” folder 6, box 54, Davison Papers.

113 See, for example, Steve Stewart, “Students Can Regulate Activities Fund—Barber,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Jan. 28, 1969, 1; Steve Stewart, “Increased Responsibility Given to SGA This Year,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 28, 1969, 1, 10; Christopher Bonner, “Faculty Approved Housing Changes Set Fall Quarter,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 6, 1969, 1; and “Proposal for Changes in the Regulatory System at the University of Georgia,” folder 59, box 41, Tate Papers.

114 Sartorious, Deans of Women, 147–62.

115 Mike Howell, “Judiciary Results from Hard Work,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Jan. 14, 1969, 4.

116 Lyn Battey, “Judiciary Shift Leaves WSGA without Function,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Oct. 10, 1968, 9; and Donna Collins, “North Advises Coeds to Take Active Part,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), April 8, 1969, 8.

117 Larry Mitchell, “11 Dorms to Get Women Assistants,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), April 8, 1969, 1; and Steve Stewart, “Dorm Council Working,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Dec. 4, 1969, 5.

118 Kay Giese, “More Funds Sought for Women's Sports,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 18, 1971, 1; and “Exchange Corner: Three on Board,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 3, 1970, 2.

119 Sartorious, Deans of Women, 147–62; and Carol Roberts, “Women's Lib: UGA Men for It,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Dec. 2, 1971, 1.

120 Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, What Became of the Dean of Women? Changing Roles for Women Administrators in American Higher Education, 1940–1980 (PhD diss., University of Kansas, 1996), 326–54; and Gaston-Gayles et al., “From Disciplinarian to Change Agent.”

121 Larry Mitchell, “Office to Begin Housing Survey; Armstrong Says,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Jan. 23, 1969, 1; Judy Bateman, “Resident Assistants Offer Valuable Aid to Students,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Dec. 4, 1969, 6; Pete McCommons, interview by Fran Lane, Athens, GA, Nov. 30, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aRkX_7ijJ4; and Pete McCommons, interview by Rachael Dier, Athens, GA, November 28, 2018. UGA student Cindy Luke later claimed that the program presaged the national calls for residential reform by the President's Commission on Campus Unrest. Cindy Luke, “Athens Housing Like a Community,” Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 21, 1970, 12T.

122 Phil Gailey, “Athens Protest ‘Like a Rock Festival,” Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 16, 1969, 7A.

123 Robinette Kennedy, “SMOSS Group Organizes to Support Nixon Policies,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Nov. 11, 1969, 1.

124 Dyer, University of Georgia, 349–52.

125 Janet Summers, “Social Responsibility–One Indivisible Entity; Not Divided Crusade,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 21, 1970, 4.

126 See, for example, “Free University Presents Alternative to Students,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Sept. 27, 1968, 2; and “Free University Plans Discussion,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Oct. 1, 1968, 1. Jane Lichtman argues that free universities were less prevalent in the South than elsewhere but attributed that difference to institution size more than regional factors. Lichtman, Jane, Bring Your Own Bag: A Report on Free Universities (Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 1973), 23Google Scholar.

127 See, for example, Carol Roberts, “Blacks Here Demand More Representation,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 11, 1971, 1; and Bob Dart, “Black Leader: Change Now,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Oct. 21, 1971, 1.

128 See, for example, Velma Smith, “Lib Group Looks for More Members,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 25, 1971, 7; Carol Roberts, “Women's Lib Says Yes: Discrimination Here?” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Dec. 1, 1971, 1; and Carol Roberts, “Women's Lib: UGA Men for It,” Red and Black, December 2, 1971, 1, 2.

129 Linda Chafin, phone interview by Rachael Dier, Athens, GA, June 19, 2020.

130 “Continued University Repression,” Right On! 5 no. 1 (1972), 1, folder 3, box 53, Davison Papers.

131 Huff, “Conservative Student Activism,” 175–80; “CCC Prints ‘Right On!,’” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Jan. 28, 1971, 2; “Continued University Repression”; “Big Brother at Work,” Right On!, 5, no. 1; and Jon Ham, “Dorm Program Halted Under Fire,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 4, 1972, 1, 5.

132 Ham, “Dorm Program Halted Under Fire,” 1, 5.

133 Carl P. Savage Jr., “Communal Life at the University of Georgia,” n.d. [Jan. 1972], folder 9, box 54, Davison Papers.

134 Savage, “Communal Life at the University of Georgia,” 2.

135 O. Suthern Sims Jr. to Fred C. Davison, Jan. 21, 1972, folder 9, box 54, Davison Papers; M. Louise McBee to O. Suthern Sims, Jan. 21, 1972, folder 9, box 54, Davison Papers; and O. Suthern Sims Jr. to Fred C. Davison, Jan. 29, 1972, folder 9, box 54, Davison Papers.

136 Savage, “Communal Life at the University of Georgia,” 1. Florida universities experienced a related controversy the year before after a regent, opposed to open visitation, alleged the dormitories were “taxpayer's whorehouses.” Ben B. Ross to Chappelle Matthews, n.d. [1972], folder 15, box 128, Davison Papers; and Stephen Eugene Parr, The Forgotten Radicals: The New Left in the Deep South, Florida State University, 1960 to 1972 (PhD diss., Florida State University, 2000), 331–38.

137 Savage, “Communal Life at the University of Georgia,” 2.

138 “Solons Plan Pop Dorm Visits,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 1, 1972, 1.

139 Sims to Davison, Exhibit 0, Jan. 21, 1972, folder 9, box 54, Davison Papers.

140 Tom Linthicum, “Georgia's Davison Denies ‘Drunk’ Parties,” Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 27, 1972, 12A; Ken Willis, “‘Commune’ Charge Dealt Severe Blow,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Jan. 27, 1972, 1; and Sims to Davison, Jan. 29, 1972, Davison Papers.

141 O. Suthern Sims Jr. to Richard Armstrong, Jan. 7, 1972, folder 3, box 53, Davison Papers; and O. Suthern Sims Jr., “Chronology of Events,” Dec. 12, 1972, folder 10, box 53, Davison Papers.

142 Ham, “Dorm Program Halted Under Fire,” 1, 5; “Regents Hear Literature Gripes,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 9, 1972, 1; and Richard C. Armstrong to O. Suthern Sims Jr., Jan. 28, 1972, folder 10, box 53, Davison Papers.

143 Minutes, housing meeting, Feb. 4, 1972, folder 10, box 53, Davison Papers.

144 Alice Lovejoy to President Davison, Feb. 3, 1972, folder 2, box 53, Davison Papers.

145 Michael J. White to Fred C. Davison, Feb. 8, 1972, folder 9, box 54, Davison Papers.

146 “Police Arrest 33 at Sit-In,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 4, 1972, 1.

147 Fran Fulton, “Taylor, Goad Resign as Area Coordinators,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 25, 1972, 1.

148 “Dorm Crackdown Set,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 11, 1972, 1; Fran Fulton, “Crack Down, Memo Orders,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 15, 1972, 1; Fran Fulton and Sam Farris, “Misunderstanding Spurs Resignations,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 22, 1972, 1; Fulton, “Taylor, Goad Resign as Area Coordinators”; and “Sixth CRE Quits, Was Last One Left,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), April 20, 1972, 1.

149 Fran Fulton, “Four Quit Housing,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 18, 1972, 1.

150 Joyce Taylor to Richard Armstrong, March 15, 1972, folder 10, box 53, Davison Papers; Fulton, “Taylor, Goad Resign as Area Coordinators”; and “Vandals Hit Official's Apartment,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), March 1, 1972, 1.

151 See, for example, Nick Curry, “A Dean of Student Control?” Red and Black (Athens, GA), April 6, 1972, 3; and Scott McLarty, “Promises, Promises!” Red and Black (Athens, GA), June 28, 1972, 4. Student affairs administrators in the era were often in difficult positions, forced to enact administrative mandates for control despite their desires to support students. Gaston-Gayles et al., “From Disciplinarian to Change Agent,” 268–275.

152 See, for example, Jim Corbett, “RHA Petition Protests Dorm Rule Crackdown,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), April 11, 1972, 1; O. Suthern Sims Jr. to David Bell and Stephen Patrick, May 1, 1972, folder 10, box 53, Davison Papers; RHA, “The Crackdown Poses Real Threat,” folder 2, box 32, Davison Papers; “Protesting Students Meet with Davison,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 5, 1972, 1; Linda Beasley and Toddy Horton, “2 Students Indicted for Protests,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 24, 1972, 1; Pete McCommons, “All My Trials, Pt. 1,” Flagpole, March 6, 2013, 1. https://flagpole.com/news/pub-notes/2013/03/06/all-my-trials-pt-1-1; and McCommons, interview by Dier.

153 Chafin, interview by Dier.

154 Leslie Thornton, “Innocent Plea Set in Trespass Trial,” Red and Black (Athens, GA) September 29, 1972, 1,

155 See, for example, Leslie Thornton, “Last Year's Protestors Lose Financial Aid Here,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Oct. 27, 1972, 1; Joyce Murdoch, “Federal Funds Denied to Students in Sit-In,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), May 25, 1973, 1; and Ken Elkins, “Eligibility for Aid Restored,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Sept. 20, 1973, 1.

156 “Double Jeopardy,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Sept. 27, 1972, 4; O. Suthern Sims Jr. to Albert Jones, Nov. 29, 1972, folder 10, box 53, Davison Papers; and Leslie Thornton, “No Sentences for Protestors,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Nov. 30, 1972, 1.

157 See, for example, “Guilty: ‘Athens Eight’ to Be Sentenced,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 20, 1973, 1; Michael Simpson, “The First and Second Trials,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Feb. 22, 1973, 4; Laurie Gregory, “‘Athens Eight’ Retrial Denied,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), Nov. 13, 1973, 1; Pete McCommons, “All My Trials, Pt. 2,” Flagpole, March 13, 2013, https://flagpole.com/news/pub-notes/2013/03/13/all-my-trials-pt-2/; McCommons, interview by Lane; and McCommons, interview by Dier.

158 Steve Stewart, “Professor Links His Firing to Sit-in,” Atlanta Constitution, June 29, 1973, 5B; McCommons, “All My Trials, Pt. 2”; and McCommons, interview by Dier. McCommons's dismissal fit a larger pattern where untenured faculty who combined activism and defiance of administrators faced dismissal. Lewis, Lionel S., “Academic Freedom Cases and Their Disposition,” Change 4, no. 6 (Summer 1972), 8, 77–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

159 Gary North to Frederick Davison, Nov. 14, 1973, 5, folder 9, box 53, Davison Papers.

160 Mitchell Shields, “Faculty Protests Handling of Eight,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), March 6, 1973, 1.

161 Mary Swint, “Reactions Vary: Participants Reflect on Effect of Sit-In,” Red and Black (Athens, GA), March 23, 1973, 3.

162 Swint, “Reactions Vary.”

163 McCommons, “All My Trials, Pt. 2.”

164 Timothy Reese Cain and Michael S. Hevel, “Dances, Lawsuits, and the Struggle for LGBTQ College Student Rights in the Deep South.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 2020.

165 Swint, “Reactions Vary.”

166 “Closeup: Louise McBee,” Athens (GA) Observer, Feb. 13, 1975, 3.

167 Fry, The American South and the Vietnam War, 285.

168 McCandless, Past in the Present, 245–48; and Williamson-Lott, Jim Crow Campus, 88.

169 Rice, Bradley R., “Urbanization, ‘Atlanta-ization,’ and Suburbanization: Three Themes for the Urban History of Twentieth Century Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 68, no. 1 (April 1984), 40–49Google Scholar.

170 Brahana and Feild, “A Report to the Faculty by the Student Affairs Committee,” 5.

171 Malkiel, “Keep the Damned Women Out.”

172 William Tate, Semi-Monthly Report, Oct. 15–31, 1970, folder 58, box 41, Tate Papers; and Williamson-Lott, Jim Crow Campus.

173 Blau, Peter M. and Slaughter, Ellen L., “Institutional Conditions and Student Demonstrations,” Social Problems 18, no. 4 (April 1971), 479–80CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and van Dyke, Nella, “Hotbeds of Activism: Locations of Student Protest,” Social Problems 45, no. 2 (May 1998), 205–20CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

174 McCommons, interview by Lane.

175 Ferguson, Roderick A., We Demand: The University and Student Protests (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 14–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar.