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In this Bucknellian article from May 1958, Bucknell student Biff Ries recounts an average day at Howard University, the historically black university that was founded in 1867 in Washington, D.C.. He spent a semester there during the Bucknell-Howard…

According to this article in the Bucknellian from November 1953, the Bucknell NAACP chapter (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) plans to make a film and radio broadcast about the Migrant Labor Reform Campaign in Pennsylvania…

The Bucknellian article from February 1954 announces that the famous jazz musician and composer, Duke Ellington (1899-1974), and his orchestra will return to Bucknell for the third time to play at Senior Prom. The author gives a brief background of…

This Bucknellian article from April 1952 claims that Bucknell's NAACP's membership drive nearly failed because of rumors that the NAACP is a subversive organization with undertones of communism. The author of the column argues that this is not the…

This Bucknellian article from February 3, 1961 is the first of many such quandaries about discrimination as are listed in Item #80. In particular, the author questions why Bucknell does not have any black student athletes on campus, and they query…

This editorial from an October 1950 issue of the Bucknellian stresses the difference between what Bucknell students would like to believe about their views on race and prejudice and the reality of their actions. The author argues that discrimination…

This memo is another official university correspondence from March 1965 that describes an opportunity during spring break where students can assist with a voter education and registration project in either Petersburg or Lynchburg, Virginia, sponsored…