The storm of student activism that forever transformed the racial ideals of higher education had to endure a storm of opposition and repression that forever transformed the activists and established the academy as a police state. Tens of thousands of students were rebuked, derided, suspended, expelled, harassed, beaten, arrested, jailed, injured, or killed in their determined effort (or as bystanders of the struggle) to confront the racist contours of higher education. Many put their collegiate lives on the line and lost or nearly lost them. Some put their actual lives on the line and lost or nearly lost them. At the same time, though, Black campus activists fought stridently against the opposition and repression alongside their fight to revolutionize their institutions. Thus, their activism persisted on two fronts—offensive protests to implement novel measures to diversify higher education and defensive protests against the reaction their activism evoked. No depiction of the movement is complete without a discussion of this all-important rearguard, and the trauma and brutality Black campus activists suffered, the form their sacrifice took, the way they gave their lives to the struggle.