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Screwballs Comic: "Toke N' Choke", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A four-panel black and white comic strip drawn and authored by Tom Higgins expressing ethnic, black male stereotypes.

Long description.

Panel one: In the foreground is one of the usual white, men characters. The man has a long, rectangular nose and long, flat-top hair style. A speech bubble over his head says, "Hey man, did you get th' stuff?" He is looking in the direction of a black man wearing a striped Zoot suit and black fedora who has opened a door and is walking into the room, toward the white character. The black character is drawn as if he …

Bot Expands Umaine Anti-Hazing Rules, Rich Garven

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

One black female student sits among 200 white students in an Introduction to Anthropology class and the professor is speaking on physical characteristics of races. He singles her out of the class and asks if she has trouble sleeping because of her braided, Bo Derek-style hairdo. She says no, and he replies, "You must have a really soft pillow, but then, they don't have pillows in Africa."

Accused By Origin, Barney Berube

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The subject of rape for the lead story in the Maine Campus makes for titillating talk and gossip. That seems universal. Why shouldn't the Maine Campus cash in on this human frailty? Other papers indulge in this kind of reportage gratuitously. That's only one of the curiously sad aspects of the Maine Campus indulgences.

Umo Blacks Say Maine Is Biased, Maine Campus Staff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding six students alleging that the University of Maine is biased against Black students.

Spark Magazine Published By Orono Free Press On Bobby Seale, A Black Panther And Other Related Topics, Orono Free Press, Art Adoff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

This Spark magazine, published by Orono Free Press on September 22, 1969, was created as a 'Maine Movement Publication' and was on the topic of Bobby Seale, Black Panther Chairman, who was arrested and the repression of the Black Panther Party. On page two there is an advertisement for a protest to 'Tell the People the Truth-- Free Bobby' and transportation to Bangor for the protest. Art Adoff wrote a background piece on the 'Black Panther Party' and on pages four-six there is a piece on the repression of the Black Panther Party.

Maine Prejudice Panel Gives Views, Bob Haskell

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding a panel discussion at the Symposium on Black America. The panel featured Robert Talbott, Orville Pound, and Damon Scales.

Black Symposium-Forman Damns U.S. Capitalism, Martha Hanley

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding James Forman's speech at the Symposium on Black America held at the University.

Black Symposium Communist Speaks Out, Bob Haskell

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus on a speech by Charlene Mitchell at the Symposium on Black America.

University Of Maine's History Union Newsletter, Art Adoff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

This newsletter from the University of Maine's History Union dated between circa 1968-1970 on 'Black Panthers at Maine' by University of Maine student Art Adoff. The newsletter includes remarks about the lack of Black History studies, what the History Departments plans to do about it, and the History Union's goal to fight for a Black studies program. There are statements from the Head of the History Department at the time, Dr Robert Seager II.

Editorial Regarding Samuel Courtney, Maine Campus Staff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Editorial from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding of what they describe as a "hazing" incident of Black students Roger and Samuel Courtney who were tarred and feathered.

A photograph of the incident is featured in the collection.

Photograph Of Courtney Brothers Tarred And Feathered, Author Unknown

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Photograph of two Black students Samuel and Roger Courtney tarred and feathered While at the time this incident was described as "hazing" incident carried out by University of Maine a modern interpretation, by scholars such as Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, was that this was actually a racist attack.

Sieber has featured this incident in her, Visualizing the Red Summer database and archive on the topic of the Red Summer of 1919, a term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year.

More information on this incident can be elsewhere in this …