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WUA/05. University Student Groups

 Collection Subgroup Term
Identifier: WUA/05
Washington University Student Groups' material
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Black Manifesto Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WUA-05-wua00049
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the Black Position Paper of 1968, the Black Manifesto of 1968, and correspondence with Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot concerning these documents and goals.  Also included are documents relating the Brookings protest and other documents created by the student group.  The collection also contains documents detailing action taken in 1978 and 1998 by the Association of Black Students and the administrators of Washington University.

Student Committee For Admission of Negroes (SCAN) Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WUA-05-wua00051
Scope and Contents This collection includes documents that describe SCAN activities such as panel meetings, movie viewings, speakers, recitals, rallies and parades.  The scrapbook also includes Student Life editorials along with other newspaper clippings, pictures, and some correspondence. It includes flyers for group activities and articles that show the results of a campus wide poll on the issue.  Many newspaper clippings show the campus community’s responses to SCAN’s actions.A digital copy of...