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  • Collection: Race & Space

No Housing for Mr. Hurst

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Mack Charles Hurst's struggle to find housing in West Raleigh was not uncommon. Hundreds of NCSU minority students and faculty members were discriminated against in their pursuit of housing. The total lack of options for students such as Mack Hurst …

Director R.W. Shoffner to Chancellor John T. Caldwell

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Thought you might be interested in the invitation list and attendance at our five football game luncheons held at Carter stadium this fall.

The enclosed report gives you some idea about the number of different people who were our guests.

A Black Teacher in a White School

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This article was written by Dr. Don C. Locke, associate professor of counselor education at NC State, describing the realities of a black professor working on a white campus. Black faculty that worked at predominantly white campuses were often…

NC State and the City

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This image, taken in 2004, reveals both the proximity of NC State to Downtown Raleigh and the tremendous growth Raleigh has experienced in the past 50 years.

The Student as Nigger

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In this likely controversial piece, the author compares the student to the "nigger." His philosophical piece argues that the establishment is keeping down the student in much the same way white racists have kept down black Americans.

Memorandum Concerning Black Progress at NC State

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Black Faculty and Professional Staff was a campus group composed of university black employees that represented the interests of NC State's black community. They fought for equality and representation in the university administration and often…

HEW Begins Proceedings; UNC Faces Cutoff of Funds

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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) first levied racial and gender discrimination charges against the Consolidated University of North Carolina in 1970, and the negotiation between the two institutions was still taking place eight…

HEW Charges Discrimination

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In 1970, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) charged the Consolidated University of North Carolina with racial and gender discrimination in a number of administrative areas. Their chargesled to a ten-year negotiation between the…

Gordon Gunter to Chancellor Caldwell

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Sir:

I read your article in the summer issue of Phi Kappa Phi.

I began a long time ago. My father was Mr. Atticus I, I always said.

But Martin Luther King went astray after doing some goods things in Birmingham. He advocated non-observance…

University of Georgia Vice Chancellor H.F. Robinson to NCSU Chancellor John Caldwell

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Dear John:

I have just read your most stirring remarks in Summer, 1968 issue of Phi Kappa Phi Journal entitled, "Where Do We Begin?" These words were most appropriate on the occasion of the funeral of Martin Luther King and I am glad to see them…