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