Human Relations Conference at Bucknell
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Title
Human Relations Conference at Bucknell
Subject
Human Relations Conference to be held at Bucknell; President of NAACP approves
Description
This conference program from May 1954 thematizes human relations through BU’s NAACP chapter (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The Human Relations Conference will be held in Hunt Hall to discuss racial and religious discrimination in the Bucknell and Lewisburg community. The purpose of the conference will be to set up a committee in the Lewisburg area to help counteract this type of discrimination in the future. The first file in this item includes the conference program and list of speakers. The second file in this item reveals the support of the then-President of Bucknell’s NAACP chapter, James Justice (class of ??), who wrote a letter that personally asks Forrest D. Brown to get involved. Brown was advisor/secretary for the University’s Christian Association and Bucknell’s Foreign Student Advisor from 1936-1966.
Creator
Office of Student Affairs - author unknown ; NAACP - James Justice, President
Source
Office of Student Affairs ; NAACP (National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People)
Publisher
The Griot Institute
Date
May 15, 1954 ; May 6, 1954
Type
Image, Text, Program, Correspondence
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