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The information packet about the Peace Retreat

A photo showing some of the thousands of students marching on Raleigh in May, 1970.

Administering the oath of office to Dr. Caldwell (left) is Chief Justice J. Wallace Winborne, North Carolina Supreme Court. Dr. William C. Friday (center), president of NC State University, looks on.

This photograph is of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican political leader, writer, and activist who was a strong proponent of Black Nationalism. Garvey has been credited with synthesizing previous strands of political, economic, and cultural Black Nationalism…

This photograph is of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a prominent leader of the abolitionist movement prior to the U.S. Civil War. His autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) was a…

This photograph is of Sidney Lowe, North Carolina State University's first African-American head coach of men's basketball. Lowe, who coached the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Memphis Grizzlies before coming to NCSU, also played as a the starting…

This photograph is of the continent of Africa, with flags of individual nations superimposed on it.

NCSU was just one piece of a complex greater community. Pictured is the NCSU campus in 1969. One can see the stark contrast between the busting campus center and the quiet, predominantly black community of Oberlin Village to the north.

A symbol of modernization and progress, the NCSU Faculty Club held tight to social and political norms. The Good Neighbor Council requested that the majority-white institution open its doors to faculty from nearby historically black colleges, St.…

Cyrus B. King was one of the longest tenured officers in the Good Neighbor Council. His position as secretary in the early 1970s meant that King would often open dialogue with local community members.