Written by Anna Trammell
In February 1969, the Black Student Association submitted a list of demands to university administration. Also published in BSA’s newspaper The Black Rap, the list called for “The immediate establishment of a Black cultural center large enough to accommodate all Black people which will be run by the Black Student Association.” [1] Shortly after the list was published, Chancellor J.W. Peltason asked Clarence Shelley, Director of the Special Educational Opportunities Program, to “undertake immediately the development of recommendations for establishment of a black cultural center.”[2]
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