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Home Ec. Girls Have Practice House, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In accordance with the Smith-Hughes Act, North Hall is being used as a practice house for the Home Economics seniors. The Smith-Hughes Act was enacted in 1917, providing federal aid to states to promote pre-collegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.

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 …