Student Unrest, 1968

Title

Student Unrest, 1968

Date

c. 1968

Creator

Prentice Herman Polk

Contributor

Tuskegee University

Description

Black and white image of several Tuskegee students protesting in Dorothy Hall and locking themselves in the Board of Trustees in a room. The students demands included financial aid packages for athletes, the end to compulsory participation in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps ROTC program while the war in Vietnam was raging, the formation of a Black studies program, and even changes to the structure of college classes, such as the right to see a syllabi for classes at the beginning of the school year.

Primary Subject

1900-1999 See all items with this value

Education See all items with this value

Activism See all items with this value

Civil Rights Movement See all items with this value

Location

"Tuskegee

Macon County

Alabama

United States"

Type

Photograph

Format

JPEG

HBCU Identifier

530

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.TU.0008

Rights

All rights held by the archives. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact the archives, Tuskegee University

Contributing Institution

Tuskegee University

Collection

Civil Rights Movement Unrest 1968

Language

English