Project Resources
Project Documents and Presentations
Team Presentation to the Washington College History Project, December 2020
Team Presentation to Washington College Student Affairs Staff, April 2021
Oral History and Research Sources
Black Alumni Oral History Projects Around the Nation↓
Scholarship on African American History and Higher Education↓
"Whiteness as Collective Memory in Student Publications at Midwestern Liberal Arts Colleges, 1945-1965" by Dafina Lazarus-Stewart
"Exploring Race, Racism, Radicalism, and Empowerment: The Importance of Researching and Documenting the Historical Experiences of People of Color at PWIs" by Richard M. Breaux
"On the Black Student Movement—1960-70" by Muhammad Ahmad
"Ball State University African American Alumni Oral History Project Phase II: A Thesis" by Nicholas S. Evans
Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s edited by Robert Cohen and David J. Snyder
"'Gym Crow Must Go!' Black Student Activism at Columbia University, 1967-1968" by Stefan Bradley
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
University of Virginia: Universities Studying Slavery Consortium
Researching the Student Experience at Washington College↓
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