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Item Dissenting opinion on contributing to the Bennington Civil Rights Committee(1963-05-20) Nicholas, Jeannie; Stafne, Marianne; Wolter, Sally"There are many sides to the question of whether or not the student body should forfeit its Friday night dinner in order to contribute to the Bennington Civil Rights Committee the money which would ordinarily be spent for this food. We would like to present a dissenting opinion to this gesture. This gesture supposes universal public consent to a matte r which should be decided privately."Item Food and clothing drive(1965-12)"...we are going to conduct a crash food and clothing drive for the unemployed Negroes in Mississippi. There will be a large box placed i n each house f or clothing and a smaller one for canned or packaged food that you might want to get rid of before vacation. We al so ask that you put your snack bar change in the designated box in Commons. Give generously."Item Civil Rights Colloquium(1966) Meyers, Libby;"...the committee members decided to concentrate on a colloquium on the civil rights movement today, as viewed by young activists, North and South. The purpose of the colloquium is to help give direction to white students concerned with the reasons behind the need for Black Power and with their role with regard to this issue." Coverage of this symposium can be found in Quadrille Vol 1, NO 3 http://hdl.handle.net/11209/9594Item Are You Concerned about Civil Rights? You Are Needed Right Now.(1966-03-31) De Leon, Lucia"Representation through your congressman is your POWER to help forward civil rights for nearly a million people. You may not be able to, or want to go down South to help in voter registration. But you have in your possession, right here at Bennington, a strong power that can give immediate results."Item Which Way Now? A Colloquium on the Civil Rights Movement Today(1966-12)Schedule of Civil Rights Colloquium on December 2-4. Keynote Address by Julian Bond.Item Keep that Nigger Running(1966-12-07)"'Keep that Nigger Running.' - Invisible Man , Ralph Ellison." "The Civil Rights Colloquium at Bennington last weekend raised more questions than it answered. I am an ex-student, activist in the civil rights movement for the last 5 years, who was invited up from Mississippi to participate in the colloquium. I found many students already involved in social change and others wanting to become more involved. Many more have "their own problems to deal with." This galley is offered in response to a need expressed by members of the community -faculty,students, administration - for further probing."Item Selected excerpts from Civil Disobedience(1967-10-24)"Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1847 about the slavery issue. We think it applies to the present situation. Selected excerpts follow"Item God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman(1967-12)The lyrics of the song "God Re Ye Merry Gentleman" are altered to include references to violence against protestors, radiation, the Vietnam War, and voting civil rights.Item The Black Perspective(1968) Holabird, Katherine; Basile, Rose; Stockard, Sharon; Jacoby, Annice; Johnson, Gaye; Bolsey, Carole; Robbins, Diana; Delp, Laurel"We are calling for the incorporation of Black subject matter into already existing courses . Courses should be expanded in terms of content and the perspectives by which the material is studied must be opened. We are calling for the creation of courses to fit within the structure of present divisions; the development of courses such as Urbanology, Black Protest Thought, Afro-American contributions to Music and Dance, etc We calling for the creation of a Black Studies division, making it possible to major in Afro-American Studies or some area within."Item Draft Resistance the Alliance between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party(1968-03-20)"The Special Events Committee presents a talk by Brian Murphy at 4:00 o'clock on Wednesday, March 20, in Dewey Living room. The title is Draft Resistance the Alliance between the Black Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party."Item Comment on Memorial Service for Dr. Martin Luther King(1968-04-05)The "memorial services'' for Dr. Martin Luther King make what I consider a pathetic comment on the Bennington community. It is so awfully nice for those who have for the most part remained uncommitted to the Civil Rights movement to be able to spend two hours demonstrating their "grief" and paying the blood money which will allow them by the end of the afternoon to sink into a comfortable state of unconcern."Item A Memorial(1968-04-05) Abercrombie, Barbara; Aldridge, Cheryl; Black, Ermetra; Johnson, Gay; Jenkins, Maren; Kydd, Brenda; Lee, Marian; Robinson, Joanne; Smith, Adele; Stockard, Sharon"The Afro-American students here at Bennington express our deepest sadness and remorse over the murdering of Dr. Martin Luther King. The poignancy of the death of this one man who totally dedicated himself to the freedom of black people, is also, to us, a startling reminder of the death black people suffer from daily in one form or another."Item Memorial Service for Dr. Martin Luther King(1968-04-05) Carini, Louis; Guy, Georges; Hanks, Lucien; Brown, Donald; Holt, George; Kirkpatrick, Joanna; Hansenclever, Irene; Lyon, Irving; Ricks, Arnold; Surette, Gerald; Rowe, Leonard; Supowit, Lee; Feeley, Helen; Van der Linde, Reinhound; Tristman, Richard; Shapiro; Westberg; Wilson; Witkin, Issac; Wittman, Josef; Wittman, Martha; Tillim, Sidney; Tate; Stickney, Rebecca; Hyman, Laurence; Hyman, Stanley Edgar; Delbanco, Nicholas; Pearson, Harry; Picco, Ulises Raul; Rosenblith, Eric; Sainer, Arthur; Schlabach, Anne; Smith, Barbara; Stroud, Peter; DeGray, Julian; DeGray, Margaret; Elman, Richard; Eskin, Stanley; Finckel, George; Finckel, Marianne; Flory; Golffing, Francis; Gray, Paul; Adams, Pat; Baker, Frank; Belitt, Ben; Calabro, Louis; Nowak, Lionel; Nowak, Laura; Wohnus, John; Woodworth, Robert; Teare, Robert; Montesinos, Nora"There will be a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King at the North Bennington Congregationalist Church today at 2:00 p.m. The college community will assemble on Commons lawn at 1:15. We will walk from the college to the church where Rev. William Abernethy will conduct the services. The collection will be sen t to COME, Temple A. M. E. Memphis, Tennessee, to support Dr. King's efforts in Memphis.Item Civil Rights(1968-04-08) Teare, Robert; Burrows, Patty"Civil rights is more than a matter of black and white. We can send money for Rap Brown; we can express our grief over Rev. King's death at a memorial service; and we can start acting now. There are people in our town of Bennington who are also being denied their rights. Here is an opportunity for immediate and constructive action. What we can do for the people who live in poverty in the Bennington community does not constitute a revolutionary movement."Item H. Rap Brown(1968-04-08) Smith, Adele"Are you going to sit back while another black leader dies then hold your memorial services and weep your tears? H. Rap Brown has been imprisoned since February 21, Since that time he has been fasting for his people. He is weak, and we must get him out NOW."Item Statement Published in the Bennington Banner(1968-04-12) Abernethy, William B.; Bloustein, Edward J.; Brown, Donald R.; Condon, Robert; Flanagan, Francis B.; Gil, Gloria; Gross, Chaim; Haynes, Spencer B.; Powers, Lawrence F.; Rowe, Leonard; Toolan, James M."We are white people. It was our forefathers who came to this country in search of freedom and yet who made black people into slaves; it was our forefathers who carried black people from Africa to America in boats of New England timber. We are white people. It was our forefathers who signed the Declaration of Independence with its claim that all men are created equal and yet who also signed the Constitution of the United States of America whose original form treated black people as three-fifths of a human being..." In 1968: Williams B. Abernathy was the pastor at the North Bennington (VT) Congregational Church; Edward J. Bloustein was the president of Bennington College; Donald R. Brown was a social science faculty member at Bennington College; Robert Condon was a local business owner; Francis B. Flanagan was the pastor of Sacred Heart Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Bennington; Gloria Gil was a co-founder of Bennington Potters; Chaim Gross was the rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Bennington; Lawrence F. Powers was a local politician and business owner; Leonard Rowe was a social science faculty member at Bennington College; James M. Toolan was the medical director of United Counseling Service.Item Status of Two Black Culture Proposals(1968-06-05) Smith, Adele"In an effort to make education more relevant to us and to introduce black culture to interested white students, the black students at Bennington have presented two proposals to the administration and the faculty. The first calls for a seminar defining the black ethos in the arts which would invite speakers representing art, dance, music, theatre, and literature . The second stresses the need for a black professor in the social sciences who would teach a course in black history or anthropology."Item Langston Hughes poem(1968-06-12)Item Institutional Racism(1968-10) Putnam, Louisa; Johnstone, Erika"Is the cultural bias of this campus so White that Black students must necessarily feel alienated? Whether or not overt discrimination exists , can Black students feel comfortable here in their own life style, or must they conform to the White life style?"Item Talk on The Identity Crisis in Black Experience(1968-11-20)