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Several hundred draft protesters march from campus to the Selective Service (draft) office, and after police break that up, many march into three grocery stores to participate in a grape boycott protest. The protesters do minor damage to the stores,…

An all-day Indochina teach-in is held in the CUB ballroom; classes are cancelled so students can attend. This was one of the demands that President Terrell had agreed to in ending the "Fort French" occupation.

A left-wing campus organization of motorcycle-riding professors and grad students (the UAWMFMC, known informally as the "Mothers") hosts a nine-hour kegger benefit of the Seattle Black Panthers' free medical clinics.

Students from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington march in protest of the Vietnam War. Students hold signs that read "Stop the Draft", "Fuck War", and other anti-war sentiments.

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.

MEChA recruits in the CUB lobby for its weekly picketing of Pullman's Safeway store, asking people to refuse to buy grapes.

A Molotov cocktail is thrown into a basement hallway of Waller Hall, but quickly extinguished by the residents. Three other arson fires occur in Waller in the weeks around 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,…

President Nixon sends U.S. troops across the Vietnamese border into Cambodia, which is being used as a sanctuary by the People's Army of Vietnam (they can strike at South Vietnam forces and U.S. forces and then withdraw into Cambodian territory and…

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.

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

Portraits of the Washington State University football players from the program for the 11/23/1968 football game between Washington State University and the University of Washington (page 16). This page is part of the digital exhibit about student…

Portraits of the Washington State University football players from the program for the 11/18/1972 football game between Washington State University and the University of Washington (page 19). This page is part of the digital exhibit about student…

President Terrell releases his (mostly negative) response to the eleven demands.

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…

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…

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…

Protesters rally in support of Ralph Atkins, an African American man who was the only individual charged in a protest on behalf of United Farm Workers. The photograph features a man in a black leather jacket speaking to the audience through a…

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…

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.

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,…

A group of students gather around a sculpture of a hand with its middle finger extended at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. The statue is painted in the colors of the American flag and has a clown mask at the tip of the middle…

WSU hosts a full day of environmental talks, films, and forums, as part of the first ever "Earth Day." Washington senator Henry M. Jackson speaks in the CUB Ballroom about environmental issues. Jackson, a Vietnam supporter, was repeatedly shouted…

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…

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.

The south stands of the football stadium are destroyed in an arson-caused fire. This follows the similar burning of UI's stadium seven months earlier, and downtown Pullman's Anderson Berger Toyota on March 24th. The Lewiston National Guard…

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.

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,…

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…

Looking northeast, students have a sit-in across Stadium Way near the French Administration building on the campus of Washington State University. They were protesting the Cambodian invasion and the Kent State University.