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This photograph of a female student at the Pan-African Festival in April of 1978 demonstrates the growing involvement of African American students on campus during the 1970s.

This photograph of dozens of African American students at an engineering conference was taken sometime between 1970 and 1979. The photograph demonstrates the growing number of black students at NC State and the university's efforts to recruit black…

In this photograph, four female student athletes study together. The group consists of three white students and one black student. The photo was taken sometime in 1977 or 1978.

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…

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.

The Black Faculty and Professional Staff campus group wrote a letter of welcome to the new chancellor, Dr. Bruce Poulton, and outlined their concerns and needs of the university. The group was particularly concerned with two issues: the duality of…

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…

The New Black Plague

By Kevin A. Blue

There is a new epidemic sweeping through the middle-class Afrikan American community. This new dilemma takes root in the mind and spreads rapidly to the heart and soul of its victims. The effects vary from…

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…

On April 14, 1969, several non-academic workers met with Chancellor Caldwell in his office to discuss the problems with female maids working in male dormitories. The employees did not leave the office when asked to do so, and were eventually arrested…