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Students Go Against All Odds
This newspaper article in a special edition of The Technician interviews the first black homecoming queen and black homecoming queen runner-up to be elected together. The interviewees discuss difficulties they faced and overcame as black homecoming…
What's the Biggest Problem Facing NCSU's Blacks Today?
This newspaper article in a special edition of The Technician interviewed black NCSU students on what challenges they face at the university.Â
Report of the University Good Neighbor Council 1969-1970
This report of the Good Neighbor Council's accomplishments and activities during the 1969-1970 school year covers the progress the council had made towards achieving higher black enrollment and black student engagement. The report also makes some…
Report of the Good Neighbor Council 1974-1975
This report of the Good Neighbor Council's accomplishments and activities during the 1974-1975 school year covers the progress the council had made towards achieving higher black enrollment and black student engagement. The report also makes some…
"Racism Emerges at State"
Racism Emerges at State
By Rene Scott
Coming into 1994, many NCSU students were jolted awake from a peaceful Dream with an announcement in the Free-Expression tunnel of an Afrikan-American celebration (Showtime at the Apollo). However, there…
Letter to Dr. James Maddox from Linda Brieaddy
In this letter to Dr. James Maddox, the chairman of the Good Neighbor Council, Linda Brieaddy writes to complain about an incident involving two chemistry graduate students and the Brieaddy's landlords. Mrs. Brieaddy writes that she and her husband,…
Memorandum Concerning the Jolly Knave Demonstration
In this memorandum, an unnamed member of the Good Neighbor Council reports to the council after he/she investigated a claim of discrimination at popular Hillsborough Street student hangout, the Jolly Knave. The council member concludes that the…
Memorandum on the Subject of Gender Discrimination
In this memo from the head of the Good Neighbor Council to Chancellor Caldwell, Cyrus King argues against considering gender discrimination under the purview of the Good Neighbor Council. King argues that the council has its hands full with…
"What's the Next Step?"
What's the Next Step?
By Danny Byers
The Minister Louis Farrakhan has told us a million times about who the cursed seed of Canaanite is and what they have/are doing to us and we have listened. We have listened to the doctrine of the Black…
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Mrs. NC State, 1964

The photograph was taken of four of the finalists in the 1964 Mrs. NC State pageant.