FAMU Willing to Go to Court Over Merger With FSU

Media: FloridaAM/HCAC.FAMU.0376.pdf

Original Title: FAMU Would Go to Court to Preserve Its Identity
Devised Title: FAMU Willing to Go to Court Over Merger With FSU
Date: 1969-05-04
Creator: Tallahassee Democrat See all items with this value; Earl Rickey See all items with this value
Contributor: Benjamin L. Perry
Description: In the late 1960s to mid-1970s, threats of Florida A&M being phased out like other small, predominantly Black institutions or merged with Florida State University (a predominantly white institution) were recurrent. However, university President Benjamin L. Perry held his ground, threatening legal action against the Florida State University System.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; HBCU institutional history See all items with this value; HBCU leadership See all items with this value; Business See all items with this value
Location: Tallahassee; Leon County; Florida; United States of America
Type: Textual document
Medium: Paper; Ink
Measurements: L:28.5cm x W:14.5cm
Format: PDF
HBCU Identifier: AR_0007_001_006_B06_F01
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.FAMU.0376
Rights: All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.
Contributing Institution: Florida A&M University
Source: History of FAMU Collection
Collection: President Benjamin L. Perry Collection See all items with this value
Language: English

Item sets: Florida A&M University Collections