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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…

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…

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…

Newspaper article from This Week published in March 1969. This article briefly discuses the term "generation gap" and how it came to mean more than "parents not understanding their children." It also touches on the topic of change, stating that "even…

This letter served to inform Scripps alumnae of a new initiative to increase enrollment of minority students at the College. The administration particularly wanted to intensify efforts to enroll African-American and Mexican-American students.

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…

The title of this article affirms that the Black Student Union "fled" campus after the Pomona and Scripps campus bombings: a loaded phrasing. The wording captures the tension on campus, and implies that the BSU students feared reprisals against them…

On March 7, 1969, a large group of Scripps students and faculty met in the Clark Living Room to organize a picket demonstration in front of Balch Auditorium in support of the founding of the Black Studies Center. This 3.5-page student article, headed…

In protest to the lack of response from administration to their ongoing campaign to garner Claremont College support for a Black Studies Center, Black Student Union members called for a rally in front of Pitzer Hall at Claremont Mckenna College on…

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…