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During the national anthem at a WSU/UW basketball game in Bohler Gym, a group of students, white and black alike, take center court and silently raise their right fists in the "black power salute." Some portions of the attending crowd boo in…

WSU MEChA pickets Pullman's Safeway in support of the National Farm Labor Union. The boycott of Safeway would include a raid as part of a larger protest in March.

The fall's third Moratorium includes panel discussions and picketing outside Todd and Sloan Halls.

A capacity crowd attends an Associated Women Students panel on abortion. The Washington state abortion laws at the time had been written in 1909.

A four-day Moratorium is held November 13-16, including a "March Against Death" on the 15th. Estimates put attendance at less than one-third of the October 15th event. The image featured in this item may be found in the Paul Philemon Kies Photograph…

Young Americans for Freedom begin selling red white and blue anti-Moratorium armbands in the CUB, selling over 500 of them.

WSU's Radical Union Guerilla Theater produces a mock trial on the CUB mall. The subjects of the trial are an unnamed "toad" and "tuna" standing in for Placement Bureau head Walter Bristol and WSU President Glenn Terrell. The image featured in this…

On October 1st, the ASWSU Senate votes to take no stand against the Vietnam War, but reverses their stand on October 8th. Events at WSU's Moratorium include discussions, speeches by Governor Dan Evans and Spokane civil rights attorney Carl Maxey,…

50 to 75 students occupy WSU's Placement Bureau to protest military recruitment on campus. After being given 15 minutes to disperse or be arrested, the demonstrators departed. Students reoccupied the office two days later, but dispersed when they…

The first classes begin in WSU's new Black Studies Program.

Reporting in Colfax for their first weekend in jail, five African American students charged in the Alpha Gamma Rho brawl are prevented from entering the courthouse by 75 students from different colleges who support them; they and all involved spent…

Following a basketball game on January 9th where members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity uttered racial slurs at members of Goldsworthy Hall, twelve to twenty African American students approach the Alpha Gamma Rho house. At least one student is…

A basketball game between Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity members and Goldsworthy Hall students ends with racial slurs and the AGR students throwing punches.

This photograph appears on page 90 of the 1971 Chinook, the Washington State University yearbook. It features members of the Coubabes, an African American cheer squad approved by the Associated Students of Washington State University in 1970.

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 3 pages. President Terrell addresses the eleven demands issued by minority groups on campus. In each case, he explains what the university has done in favor of a demand, why the university cannot acceded to a demand, or how the…

This poster for a racism workshop in response to the 1970 Student Strike at Washington State University features the image of Uncle Sam. The face of Uncle Sam consists of three different skin tones to reflect different racial groups on the Washington…

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 3 pages. This document outlines the agreements made between university administration and studentminority groups in response to the list of demands those student groups had made. Issues touched upon included student government,…

28 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. Letter written by members of the Washington State University Anthropology department to President Terrell stating their support of the student strike, as well as their support of any of their department members who might…

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 2 pages. This document outlines the North American Indian Student Associations stance on the 11 demands put forward by Third World groups at Washington State University. It states that although it acknowledges racism on campus,…

28 x 22 cm. pamphlet, 6 pages. An unofficial letter from members of some of the University faculty to concerned parents and Alumni about the student strikes. The letter addresses concerns and lays out a timeline and summarzies of student movement…

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 3 pages. The University Committee for Rationality, consisting of faculty, staff, and teaching assistants, urged students to address issues of foreign and domestic policy in other less disruptive ways, and condemns the Citizens…

36 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. The Washington State University administrators are being accused of negligence when addressing issues brought up by Third World groups. This handout had to have been issues between May 28th and May 31st, 1970.

14 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. This sheet restates the original purpose of the strike and is mainly addressed to the white students on campus. It states that by helping minorities, white students have the power to be heard and make a change. At the…

28 x 22 cm. letter, 8 pages. Handwritten letter by Ralph Atkins describing his 1970 experiences with the racism and student protests at Washington State University, as well as his views of racism in America. Writing 17 years later, he relates his…

35 x 19 cm. clipping, 1 page. This newspaper clipping describes student reaction after their demands for an end to institutionalized racism were rejected. In response to this, some students terminated their enrollment at Washington State University,…

28 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. This schedule of anti-war events for May 11, 1972 includes a blockade of the south entrance to campus, discussions and lectures by Washington State University professors, guest speakers, and a march beginning on the mall,…

28 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. The Washington State University Strike Steering Committee calls for a student boycott against all University stores and businesses in an attempt to end institutionalized racism at the college.

28 x 22 cm. document, 2 pages. An open letter from Washington State University President Glenn Terrell to the University following the student occupation of the French Administration building, addressing the issue of cancelling classes in favor of…

28 x 22 cm. handout, 2 pages. This joint statement of several Washington State University campus activist groups lays out eleven steps that they feel the university must enact as a minimum commitment against racism.

Students gather at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington in support of a group of African American men collectively called the Pullman Four. These men were accused of rape. At the center of the image is a Caucasian man with long hair…