Claremont Officials Hide Negroes; Fear Unjust Reprisals for Blasts

Claremont Officials Hide Negroes; Fear Unjust Reprisals for Blasts

Violence

Student

Race

Scripps

Administration

Fire

In this article from the days following the bombings, Claremont Colleges Provost Mark Curtis is quoted describing how his administration had decided to move the 65 Black students at the Colleges to off-campus housing. Although there was no evidence that the Black students were responsible for the bombings, Curtis feared that “the students would become targets for retaliation.” Curtis states clearly that there were already accusations against the Black students, and that they were unfounded, but not everyone was convinced: according to documents recently made available to the public by Pomona College, a vigilante group, led by the Pomona College bomb victim Mrs. Keatley’s husband, was being formed to carry out retaliatory violence against Blacks at the Colleges.

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February-July 1969 Press Scrapbook

Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library

Long Beach Independent

1969-02-27

Alma Aleman

This resource is for educational purposes only. There is no downloading or reusing of this document without permission. Contact <a href="mailto:aharley@scrippscollege.edu?Subject=Claremont%20Activism%20Archive">Professor Anne Harley</a> for more information.

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article about hiding Black Scripps students after bombing incident

1969

Claremont, California