Jomills Henry Braddock, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Sport in Society, discusses social movements in the 1960s. He recalls attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and feeling excitement about student agitation. He adds that student protesters could be silenced if college administrators telephoned their parents and warned that their behavior could endanger their college attendance. African American college students wished to achieve greater diversity on campus, from recruitment of more black professors to the availability of black hair care products in the campus store. Braddock reveals that his fourteen-year-old sister-in-law was one of the girls killed in the Birmingham Ku Klux Klan bombing of an African American Baptist church in 1963. He says that such experiences caused him to devote his life to working for social change.
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