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This letter is in response to Nathan Gay's "Contest is Racist" article that appeared in the Feb 8 Technician. The reason that you don't understand the Ebony Man (that's two words, not one) contest is obviously due to your overwhelming ignorance as…

A receipt showing purchases made by NC State's athletic department at Lewis Sporting Goods,a local business, in 1935

In this Technician article, the author blasts ACC referees for discriminating in their calls against black NC State athletes during a basketball game in January 1969.

Bridger's response to Bowen's letter discussed the opinions of three members of State's Mates concerning Bowen's earlier inquiry on the happiness and problems of student marriage. Enclosed with the letter was an outline of some of the problems that…

Mary Jo Cashion's article discusses the winner of the 1964 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant, Paula Miller.

Black employees of NC State's Physical Plant division presented a list of 43 requests for changes to their working conditions and wages to Chancellor John T. Caldwell on March 18, 1969. The requests were submitted by the Grievance Committee of…

Mary Porterfield's article in The Technician, discussing the 1968-1969 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant, described the atmosphere of the pageant and the winner, Shirley Trottier, before criticizing the pageant for limiting itself to married women in an…

The Raleigh Community Relations Committee and the NCSU Good Neighbor Council had a tenuous working relationship in the late 1960s. In the attached letter, Mayor Tomlinson coldly thanks the Good Neighbor Council for its push for open housing policies…

I am writing this letter in response to Tony Williamson’s Forum letter of Sept. 28. There is only one thing I would like to address at this point: the conspiracy theory. Williamson asked why there are so many liquor stores and gun shops in…

This photograph is of dozens of Howard University students protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown, a young black male in Ferguson, Missouri, who was killed by a white police officer in 2014. The students' pose--standing with their hands in…