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Administration representatives (?) at the Umoja (Black student organization) occupation of the administration building, Boston University

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From a series of images labeled "Umoja taveoker of administration building." Umoja, the Black Student Union at Boston University, occupied the administration building for twelve hours before winning concessions on nine demands from President Armand Christ-Janer including appointing a Martin Luther King Chair of Social Ethics; establishing an Afro-American Affairs Coordinating Center; increasing efforts to recruit and retain Black students and faculty; and making efforts to make the papers of Martin Luther King as complete as possible.
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Photographs Black And White Negatives
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Copyright is held by Peter Simon. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Keywords

  1. African American Student Movements
  2. African Americans
  3. Boston University
  4. Demonstrations
  5. Photographs
  6. Student Protesters

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