Sarah Eppler Janda is Professor of History at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, and the author of Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.
Simply by hunting down and interviewing dozens of the leading
figures from the 1960s, Sarah Eppler Janda has done enough to make
this an important book. But she offers even more, placing the story
of Oklahoma's student activism and counterculture in national and
regional contexts, and telling this story with exemplary economy,
superb organization, admirable clarity, and her own intelligent and
revealing insight. Prairie Power opens up a hitherto ignored aspect
of Oklahoma history."" - David W. Levy, author of The Debate over
Vietnam, 2nd edition, and The University of Oklahoma: A History
""The campus activists and hippies Janda describes were not
fictional rebels but real people who dared to challenge local,
state, and national norms and values. Prairie Power is about the
intersection of beliefs - regarding war, classism, xenophobia, and
racism - and about how students and their allies who, through
face-to-face encounters with their adversaries, became effective
twentieth-century social justice provocateurs."" - George
Henderson, author of Race and the University: A Memoir
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