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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…

Assistant Director of Admissions at North Carolina State College, Frank H. Spain sent this letter to a perspective African American student to inform him that his application had been reviewed. Spain indicated that, if the student kept his grades up,…

Funding in Question for AACC Library/Gallery

By Fred Frazier

In a turn of events not uncanny to this complex, the African American Cultural Center's library has, once again, run into staffing problems. Normally the library operates from 9 a.m.…

A student at the Convocation holding a sign "Nixon said he would end the war and bring the country together...Look what he did!" and protesting the invasion of Cambodia.

Geo R. Ross, class of 1911, wrote an article in November 1947 about Eula Louisa Dixon. Dixon was the first female student to take a course related to agriculture: dairying or dairy husbandry. Dixon applied the knowledge of her short course at NC…

The Need for Slavery

By George Gaitland

The history of the Afrikan and Afrikan-American is and endless list of achievements; from Royalty and excellence, to slavery and freedom, to the struggle for redemption. However, in our whole history,…

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…

Distrust between black and white student leaders on campus is increasing, according to Brenda Harrison, University Student Center president. Events came to head last Thursday afternoon when 50 black students attended the Chancellor’s liaison…

This February 12, 1969, Technician article details the Society of Afro-American Culture's protest of the South African booth at the NC State International Fair.

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…