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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…

Newspaper article published in August 1968. It discusses the five Claremont Undergraduate Colleges' initiative to attract more students from minority groups, especially Black students. Steps taken included handing out information on the application…

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…

A contrafact song protesting the censorship of history textbooks based on Annie Little's "Fly Me Away"

In this statement, the Council of Presidents, lead by Scripps College president Mark Curtis, responded directly to the concerns raised by the Black Studies Center faculty.

This San Bernardino local newspaper reported on the students' demonstration in which more than 500 students stormed the office of Scripps College President Mark Curtis on Mar 4th, 1969. Students were protesting his objections to the establishment of…

State Senator Mervyn M. Dymally teaches a course at Pomona College entitled "The Black Man in American Politics," one of the early minority studies course offerings at the Claremont Colleges.

The Student Life reports on the formation of Pomona College Faculty And Students Together (FAST), an organization for the implementation of the Black Studies Center. Ultimately, the responsibilities held by FAST were absorbed into the Intercollegiate…

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…

The Final Report of the Washington Delegation: a group of professors and students of the Claremont Colleges went to D.C. to present the effects of the Vietnam War on university campuses, with an emphasis of the events at the Claremont Colleges