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In this article from Pomona Today, Ray Frazer, PO '47, offered a detailed account of the creation of the new programs implemented in the spring of 1969: the Black Studies Center, the Mexican-American Studies Center, and the Center of Urban Studies.

This document provides a numbered list of proposed resolutions regarding student sentiments for the college to publicly agree to and support. The students that composed this express their anger with the President Mark H. Curtis regarding the school's…

Article about protest march against ROTC

Letter to the Scripps Community from the Office of the President shortly after the campus bombings

The Asian Student Alliance (ASA) of the Claremont Colleges expresses solidarity with the Black Studies Center and the Chicano Studies Center in a letter to HMC president Joseph Platt.

This letter from BSC director James Garrett to Provost E. Howard Brooks explains the need for the Pre-Freshman Summer Program.

In this letter of 1992, Mark Curtis, President of Scripps College from 1964 to 1976, discussed the first sit-in that occurred during his Presidency. The sit-in protested the removal of an olive tree grove to construct the Humanities Building. Curtis…

Elizabeth Carleton interviewed Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran about her involvement in the Black Student Union and student activism.

This flyer announces the first open house of the newly created Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies (later changed to Africana Studies) on September 6, 1979.