Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Group Students
Consortium
Racism
Minority
Affirmative Action
Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
The Diamond Bar Walnut Valley Bulletin
1968-08-14
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Article "Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Group Students"
1968
Claremont, California
Claremont Paves Way For Black Studies Center
Resolutions
Black Studies
The Daily Report, a local newspaper for Ontario and Upland, reported on the Claremont Colleges’ and the Black Student Union joint announcement of the formation of an intercollegiate committee that would work to found a Black Studies Center. The committee was expected to submit a detailed plan for the center by March 31, 1969, so that it could be implemented by fall semester of the same year.
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Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
The Daily Report
1969-03-13
Yunjin Lin
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1969
Claremont, California
Claremont to Attract Minorities and Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Group Students and More Negro Students Sought by Colleges
Newspaper
Minority
Affirmative Action
Consortium
Racism
These articles, while having nearly identical text, have distinct titles and, in the case of one article, distinct presentations. They likely draw from an official press release from the Claremont Colleges. This difference in presentation may be a display of varying regional opinions on the colleges’ decision to increase admissions of minority group students in response to the Black Students Union’s protests and demands.
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Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
The Diamond Bar Walnut Valley Bulletin
The Temple City Times
Glendora Press
1968-08-14
Kathryn McPhee
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Articles "Claremont To Attract Minorities", "Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Groups" and "More Negro Students Sought By Colleges"
1968
Claremont, California
Mrs. Meder Evers named assistant to the director to the Claremont Colleges' Center for Educational Opportunity
Consortium
Racism
Newspaper
Activism
Affirmative Action
These brief but interesting articles highlight the little-known fact that Myrlie Evers-Williams was appointed to a position at the Claremont Colleges as part of the movement towards racial equity. Additionally, they recount an effort from the Claremont Colleges to intentionally foster a more diverse student body at the Claremont colleges.
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Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
Southeast News
Brawley News
Santa Barbara News Press
1968-09-03
Kathryn McPhee
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More Negro Students Sought by Colleges
Claremont to Attract Minorities
Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Group Students
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Three articles on the appointment of Mrs. Medger Evers to the Claremont Colleges
1968
Claremont, California
Fear Grips Local Campus
Violence
Property damage
Consortium
Race
Pomona
Scripps
Claremont McKenna
Demonstration
Bombing
Black Student Union
Activism
Protest
This article documents the suspicion and fearmongering against the BSU that continued to mount as the community panicked over the possibility of further violence. The Pomona and Scripps campus bombs were compared to other bombings and incidents of violence from California and around the country. The environment of suspicion hardly seemed conducive to progress, but the Black Student Union persisted in their activism for a Black Studies Center.
Author and publisher unknown.
February-July 1969 Press Scrapbook
Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
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1969
Elizabeth Carleton
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Article: Fear Grips Local Campus
1969
Claremont, California
Bomb Victim May Lose Sight; School Helps Negroes Hide Out
Violence
Bombing
Police
Race
Racism
Scripps
Pomona
Black Student Union
The February bombings at Pomona College and Scripps College shocked the whole community. All Black students and faculty evacuated campus following threats of violence from white students. Members of the Black Student Union performed a campus sweep to make sure the environment was safe before returning to class.
Leonard Greenwood
February-July 1969 Press Scrapbook
Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
Los Angeles Times
1969-02-27
Elizabeth Carleton
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Article: Bomb Victim May Lose Sight; School Helps Negroes Hide Out
1969
Claremont, California
Black Student Union Demands: The proposed courses of action at the colleges
Consortium
Black Student Union
Racism
Administration
Racism
Affirmative Action
This article describes at length the colleges’ plan to cultivate a more racially and economically diverse student body and connects that change to the work done by the Black Students Union to bring about this change. The article details the demands made by the students and how the administration of the colleges chose to address them, casually connecting the work of the BSU to the outcome touted by the administration.
Claremont Courier
Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
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1968-06-05
Kathryn McPhee
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An article "Black Student Union Demands: The Proposed Course of Action at the Colleges"
1968
Claremont, California
Statement By The Presidents of The Claremont Colleges In Response To The Black Students Union
Resolutions
Administration
In this official public statement, the presidents of the five Claremont Colleges, and the Claremont University Center pledged to start building a student body that reflected the ethnic distribution within the United States. In their list of promised responses to the Black Student Union, they included their plan to increase Consortium-wide African American undergraduate admissions to “a minimum of 10%,” and to hire, by September 1968, a full-time African American Admissions Officer to help in the recruitment of minority students. The administrators also promised to admit 5 minority undergraduates from a list of proposed names from the Black Student Union, to increase funding for acquiring Black Studies publications at Honnold Library. They also promised to seek to recruit and appoint faculty members from minorities (especially African American faculty) and to propose to the faculty and curriculum committees at the Colleges to design and introduce additional courses about “minority problems, and the contributions of minority groups to American civilization.” In the final paragraph, the presidents propose the building intercollegiate offerings in the area of Afro-American studies, “that might develop into a field concentration.”
Louis T. Benezet
George C. S. Benson
Mark H. Curtis
E. Wilson Lyon
Joseph B. Platt
John W. Atherton
Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
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1968-05-30
Yunjin Lin
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1968
Claremont, California
More Negroes Sought By Colleges
Consortium
Administration
Race
Minority
Affirmative Action
Newspaper
Racism
An article concerning the campaign launched by the Claremont Colleges to enroll more minority students. The article contains the same text as "Claremont to Attract Minorities" and "Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Group Students" under a different title.
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Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
Glendora Press
1968-08-18
Kathryn McPhee
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Claremont to Attract Minorities
Claremont Colleges Seeking Minority Group Students
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"More Negro Students Sought by Colleges" Article 1968
1968-1969
Claremont, California
Black-Studies Plan Shaped at Claremont
Race
Pomona
Scripps
Consortium
Africana Studies
Black Studies
Course
Black Student Union
Despite a tense campus atmosphere following demonstrations, the Claremont colleges moved forward with the Black Studies Center in March. The Black Student Union was successful in creating tangible change on the campuses. Specific gains include the admission of more students of color, the hiring of more Black faculty members, and the addition of Black Studies courses to the offerings. The 1969 Black Studies Center continues in 2018 as the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies and the Office of Black Student Affairs.
Richard A. Nenneman
February-July 1969 Press Scrapbook
Special Collections Archives of Ella Strong Denison Library
The Christian Science Monitor
1969-03-13
Elizabeth Carleton
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Article: Black-studies plan shaped at Claremont
1969
Claremont, California