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BOOKS

Eddie R. Cole. The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2020). Order book here.

 

Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, Derrick P. Alridge. With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi (University of North Carolina Press, 2025). Order book here.

 

ARTICLES

 

Nadrea R. Njoku and Eddie R. Cole. “To Give Up the Little Kingdoms”: The Black College and the Gains and Losses of Desegregation. Journal of African American History 109, no. 1 (Winter 2024): 103-127. Read article here.

 

Eddie R. Cole. Race at the Top: Historical Insights on the College Presidency and Racial Inequities. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 52, no. 2 (2020): 17-21. Read article here.

 

Eddie R. Cole. College Presidents and Black Student Protests: A Historical Perspective on the Image of Racial Inclusion and the Reality of Exclusion. Peabody Journal of Education 93, no. 1 (2018): 78-89. Read article here.

 

Eddie R. Cole and Shaun R. Harper. Race and Rhetoric. An Analysis of College Presidents’ Statements on Campus Racial Incidents. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 10, no. 4 (December 2017): 318-333. Read article here.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Eddie R. Cole and Cameron L. Burris-Greene. Black Higher Education: A Historiography of Perseverance and Triumph. In Laura W. Perna (Ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (Springer Publishing, 2024). Read chapter here.

 

Eddie R. Cole. Presidential Responses to Campus Racism: A Historical Perspective. In Kofi Lomotey and William A. Smith (Eds.), Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, Third Edition (SUNY Press, 2023). Order book here.

 

Eddie R. Cole. Words of Action: The Speeches of President Alfonso Elder and the North Carolina Student Movement, 1960-1964. In D. Danns, M. Purdy, & C. Span (Eds.), Using Past as Prologue: Contemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History (Information Age, 2015). Order book here.