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A look into the role North Carolina State University's chancellor, John Caldwell, played during the campus's 1970 protests following the shootings at Kent State University. The transformation of State College to NC State University, along with the write-in election of Cathy Sterling as student body president, created an environment ripe for the Peace Retreat, which allowed students on both sides of the fence of the Vietnam War to speak together and voice their opinions. Caldwell represented a new tide of educators who welcomed an age of student-faculty cooperation in creating a better, more relevant educational environment at NC State and across the country, and as such, helped contribute to making the campus a good environment to facilitate peaceful political discussions.

The two section headings in this exhibit are lyrics taken from the Canned Heat 1970 song "Let's Work Together", written by Wilbert Harrison. The song's lyrics exemplify the activist environment of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

This exhibit is part of a larger project detailing how State College became NC State University and how that, along with Chancellor Caldwell's administration, created an environment on the campus that was favorable to the election of Cathy Sterling and the subsequent occurence of the Peace Retreat in response to the Vietnam War. To see more about this project, visit Activists and Authorities.

Leading the campus in 1970-1971 during the peace protests, Cathy Sterling brought significant change to NC State. Sterling pushed for students' rights on and off campus. As the first woman to serve as Student Body President, Sterling represented a shift in attitudes about who could successfully represent NC State's student body.

This exhibit is part of a larger project detailing how State College became NC State University and how that, along with Chancellor Caldwell's administration, created an environment on the campus that was favorable to the election of Cathy Sterling and the subsequent occurence of the Peace Retreat in response to the Vietnam War. To see more about this project, visit Activists and Authorities.

The goal of this lesson plan is to teach high school students about the changing North Carolina agriculture industry in the 20^th century, through the analysis of primary sources from the North Carolina State University Special Collections Archives. Some sources come from other archival repositories about agriculture. 

The various primary sources included in the lesson plan correlate with the North Carolina Essential Standards, Social Studies - “American History II: The Founding Principles” because the sources complement the historic period and specific objectives: industrialization, urbanization, and the evolution of various perceptions of the “American Dream.”[1]

This exhibit focuses on the role of agricultural research at North Carolina State University in the transformation of agriculture from subsistance to industrialized. The exhibit first identifies the goals of agricultural research at the university, and then discusses major trends in agricultural research. It also examines the ways in which the results of this research were relayed to rural farmers. The exhibit concludes with an overview of the impact of agricultural research and industrialization on North Carolina farmers and North Carolina agriculture.

This exhibit is part of a larger project: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension.

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Crossing the Color Line: A Means of Protest, 1968-1972, examines the activities of the black student organization the Society of Afro-American Culture (SAAC) at North Carolina State University from its founding in 1968 until 1972. Self-identified as the "political and cultural organization of Black Students at NC State University," the SAAC took part in student outreach and campus demonstrations.¹

Analyses of documents crafted by and about the organization reveal that the SAAC adhered to larger national black student organization trends, such as aligning itself with the relatively young Black Power Movement. Throughout its formative years, the SAAC concerned itself with a broad spectrum of local, national, and international issues, including the plight of black non-academic staff members at NC State.

Many of the sources were drawn from the limited SAAC holdings available at NC State's Special Collections. These include SAAC documents and newspaper articles from the student newspaper, the Technician.