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The estimated budget for State's Mates for the 1965-1966 year shows the rising importance of the Mrs. NC State pageant, which was held in January of that year.

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…

This article from Statelog discusses the rising number of married students at North Carolina State University and the increasing popularity of State's Mates as a response to this trend.

Do We Shrink Like a Raisin or Explode?

Campus Leaders,

This letter is an appeal to our sisters and brothers and the yard requesting your active support in the struggle to create an Afrikan American Studies Department. An Afrikan American…

This list of prizes for the 1964 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant shows the extent to which State's Mates was able to get support from local merchants. All participants received at least one prize; high-placing contestants received sets of prizes.

"Dean reassures blacks of progress" discusses a letter written by Dean of Student Affairs Banks Talley to African American students. In the letter, Talley reassures students of his support for a "Black Cultural Center." The article also addresses…

The article in the school newspaper announced the winner of the Mrs. NC State 1966 title.

What a bunch of terrorists the Black Awareness Council at Carolina are. They demand a “Free-standing African-American Cultural Center.” They charged into the Chancellor’s office with their demands and held everyone hostage by…

Time out. Let’s regroup and I’ll tell you what this column is about This is a column about the things in our society. By society I refer specifically to the N.C. State community. I could very easily devote the space allotted to me on…

African Americans will no longer stand by while our people are criticized and judged by those who obviously have no idea what they are talking about. Just as Martin Luther King Jr. believed that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice…