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Jackie Robinson (legendary black second baseman) visits Bucknell
These photographs and Student Church pamphlets from February 1949 advertise the presence of a legend on campus. As the first African American to play…
Your Place in the Revolution
This item is the 1963 schedule of events and program outline for a Human Relations Conference workshop in Philadelphia hosted by the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association). Bucknell student Barbara Beach attended this workshop, where things…
What is Bucknell's Role in the Civil Rights Issue?
This pamphlet from the 1960s shares that the topic of the next Student-Faculty Fireside (a student and faculty discussion series) will be civil rights. This document advertises the conversation, which will include Dr. Douglas Sturm of the Religion…
To Students & faculty interested in Civil Rights
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…
Summary of Intersocial Questionnaire
This document from May 1960 shares the results of the survey released to Bucknell students. The goal of the survey was to get an idea about students’ feelings and opinions on the Civil Rights movement, African American people, and integration in…
Students Register Voters in Virginia
These articles from the Bucknellian and the Sunbury Daily Item from April 1965 praise campus activism. The activism in question is that, for the second year in a row, 13 Bucknell students spent their spring breaks registering voters with the YWCA.…
Student-Faculty-Administration Committee on Discrimination
This official university correspondence from May 1956 contains a letter from Student-Faculty-Administration Committee on Discrimination that urges all campus organizations to move towards the elimination of discrimination and offers their committee's…
Seven Major Organizations in Civil Rights Movement
This 1963 newsletter from the National Student Councils of YMCAs and YWCAs (Young Men’s/Women’s Christian Association) provides information on the seven major organizations of the civil rights movement. The seven groups are the NAACP (National…
Segregation and Discrimination Problems
This item reveals articles from the Sunbury Daily Item and the Bucknellian from 1960 and 1961 (the Bucknellian article repeats item #113 in this collection). These articles were bookmarked and preserved by Bucknell's Christian Association because the…
Scholarship Fund Committee Formed
This official university correspondence from May 1964 describes the Betty Ann Quinn Fund Committee. This committee was created to reinvigorate the Betty Ann Quinn Scholarship, which was established to raise funds for scholarships for black students.…
Richard McKinney at Bucknell
This item is an advertisement from 1948 for Richard McKinney's Bucknell visit. As the first black President of Storer College, a historically black college founded in 1865 in West Virginia, McKinney (who served as president of the college from…