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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,…

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. 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 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.

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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,…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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.

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…

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,…

Anti-Draft Week includes panels, marches, church services, and a dance. It's organized by the Three Forks Peace Coalition, a regional organization of groups working towards an end to American involvement in Vietnam.

"Women in Revolt" is the title of a three-day series of WSU speeches and discussion on women's liberation

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.

A volunteer undercover narcotics agent comes to Pullman, which leads to the arrest of four students for drug possession, setting off a long-running student fear of WSU employing undercover officers against their students.

Washington state Selective Service administrator Chester Chastek is invited to speak at a 3:00-5:00 forum, but the event ends after just 75 minutes due to the hostility of the attending students.

Carlton Lewis is elected ASWSU President. He is the first African American to fill that role in the school?s history. The image featured in this item may be found in the Hilltopics Photograph Collection (pc123b7f1_lewiscarlton.tif).

The World Affairs Institute holds a program of films and speakers titled "Why Student Unrest?" in the CUB auditorium.

WSU announces that that fall, for the first time, some campus dorms (Orton, Neill, Streit, Perham) will be co-ed.

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…

The ASWSU Senate authorizes the formation of the "Soulin' Coubabes," an African American spirit squad intended to "promote more school spirit among black students and black players." The image featured in this item may be found in the Chinook digital…

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.