Student Unrest, 1968
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Title
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Student Unrest, 1968
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Date
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c. 1968
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Creator
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Prentice Herman Polk
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Contributor
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Tuskegee University
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Description
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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.
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Primary Subject
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1900-1999
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Education
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Activism
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Civil Rights Movement
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Location
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"Tuskegee
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Macon County
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Alabama
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United States"
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Type
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Photograph
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Format
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JPEG
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HBCU Identifier
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530
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HCAC Identifier
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HCAC.TU.0008
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Rights
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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
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Contributing Institution
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Tuskegee University
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Collection
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Civil Rights Movement Unrest 1968
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Language
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English
