Admission of Negro Girls Provides Difficult Situation
Outreach for black women in 1960's
This article acknowledges the difficulties for Admission to initiate inclusion of black women on Ursinus College campus. In 1968, Ursinus and its students speculate how to outreach for black women to provide inclusion and diversity on campus.
Linda Richtmyre
Archives
The Ursinus Weekly
May 23, 1968
college newspaper
English
Inclusion of diversity at Ursinus College
Race at Ursinus
Race at Ursinus
Biography of Joyce L. Strickland ‘34; first mention of Blackness in the literary magazine, The Lantern (first issue, May 1933); Short story: “A Domestic Episode” (1934)
Racism at Ursinus College
Art is the pulse of social consciousness. The Lantern is one of the first, and certainly the biggest circulation of art at Ursinus College. To find that a white woman is applauded for speaking from the black experience in the first publication of this magazine is telling of the climate of Ursinus College in the 30s. This is especially true given the lack of students of color on campus to comment on the work.
Ursinus Weekly on the Sit In Movement
Commentary on the Sit-In Movement
In an Ursinus Weekly newspaper article from May 9th 1960, an unknown author commentates on the Sit-In movement which began earlier that year in February, when four black students from North Carolina A&T sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro that was designated for white people to sit and black people to stand. After increasing their numbers the next day, seating more black students at the same store, news broke out and the movement sparked an uprising of Sit-Ins, not only for students but people of color. The article reports scattered incidents that brought a multitude of controversy to the North and South, which followed the movement’s occurrences as many blacks in Raleigh, North and South Carolina, and Nashville, were were arrested for participating in the movement. This article mentions the emergence of the KKK targeting black colleges and racial equality groups such as CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and EPIC (Emergency Public Integration Committee) which were organizations that coordinated these movements and campaigned to raise funds to notify other U.S. colleges, (specifically Northern ones), including Ursinus, where news of the stoic Sit In movement inspired many to support, protest the southern stores, and raise funds for the arrested black individuals who had participated in the Sit-Ins. In Spring of 1960, the idea of racial equality at universities was certainly evident as Ursinus students protested these Southern Woolworth stores, and alumni such as Connie Hoover an Ursinus graduate of the Class of 1958 and member of the Union Theological Seminary, gave two chapel talks that advocated for and favored the Sit-In movement actions and purpose, as well as three Ursinus students, Barbara Bogel, Mary Dassler, and Lynne Habel who had interest and opinions on racial equality leading them to attend a convention of the United States Student Association in Washington, D. C. in hopes to provide insight towards the movement and its peaceful tactics.
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Ursinus Weekly Newspaper Article
Ursinus Weekly
1960
Ursinus College
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english
Hate crime discussed during meeting
Report on a town hall meeting discussing the vandalizing of an African-American teacher's podium with a racial epithet.
Katie Callahan
Ursinus Grizzly
Thursday, February 4, 2011
PNG scan of print