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Black Student Union (University of Louisville)

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

A-Head in the Revolution

 Unprocessed Material — Box Student Publications
Identifier: 1973_536-UA

Black Student Union records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1980_049-UA
Scope and Contents

Records contain newsletters, clippings, a recruiting proposal, fact sheets and press releases. The material documents the BSU's effort to persuade the university to expand academic course offerings, financial aid, and tutorial programs. It also documents a subsequent confrontation and occupation of a university building and the arrest, expulsion and reinstatement of some of the participants.

Dates: 1968 - 1969

Public Information Office records

 Collection
Identifier: 1976_105-UA
Content Description This collection consists of materials created or collected by the University of Louisvlle Public Information Office. It was originally received in two acccesions. Both included some records relating to the Black Student Union, their calls for increased representation of Black people in the student body, the faculty, and the curriculum, the May 1969 sit-ins in the offices of the University president and the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the University's response. However, there is...
Dates: 1969-1975

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 2
Unprocessed Material 1
 
Subject
College students 2
College student newspapers and periodicals 1
Minorities 1
University of Louisville -- Public relations 1
University of Louisville -- Riots 1