ABSTRACT
In 1944, 15-year-old Michael King traveled from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, with a group of his college friends and acquaintances to work in the Cullman Brothers’ tobacco fields in Simsbury, Connecticut. Cullman formed a partnership with Morehouse to bring in college students during the summer to work the fields: The students earned money toward their college tuition, and Cullman benefited from the seasonal labor. This chapter focuses on the culture of solidarity. In 1968-1969, a diverse group of students led by the Black Students Union at San Francisco State College laid out their agenda for the campus. Multiculturalism as adopted by the major cultural institutions of the nation is a bureaucratic approach to the problem of diversity. Multiculturalism allows the entry of various forms of cultural life into the curriculum and into campus life, but only in this guise: as separate and different, as well as obviously inferior to the heritage of Europe and of Western civilization.
