HON 1091: Game Changing: Exploring the African American Student Experience

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HON 1091: Game Changing: Exploring the African American Student Experience

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Letter, Alan L. Pugh to Dean Wallace (D. W.) Colvard, March 6, 1963
Letter from State Legislator Allen Pugh (Mississippi), approving of Mississippi State University President D. W. Colvard's decision to allow the MSU Basketball team to play in the NCAA Tournament.

Telegram, Unsigned, to President Dean W. Colvard, 1963
In this Western Union telegram, an anonymous person from Greenwood, Mississippi, writes to MSU President Dean W. Colvard, expressing their opposition to MSU playing Loyola Chicago, a team with Black players, in the NCAA tournament. The person…

Mideast Regional Basketball Tournament Program, March 15-16, 1963
The program for the 25th Annual Mideast Regional Playoff from the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Tournament, March 15-16, 1963 at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. The title on the coverart says Midwest and that is a…

Newspaper article, Black Counselor Pictures Role As Mediator For All Students, Mary Dier, September 25, 1970
In this article, Dier reported that Mississippi State hired James Kilgore as a counselor for its Black students. Kilgore's educational background and career was in administrative posts as historically black colleges and universities.

Newspaper Clipping, Lineups for Homecoming 1973
This newspaper clipping provides the football lineup for the 1973 Homecoming game.

Newspaper Article, Frank Dowsing Elected Mr. MSU; Sydney Tucker Reigns as Queen
This article profiles the winners of the Mr. and Miss MSU on the Mississippi State University Campus. Frank Dowsing, a Black student is a defensive halfback for the MSU Bulldogs. Sydney Tucker, a white student, is the reigning Homecoming queen.…

Newspaper article, No Segregated Services Services Here, May 7, 1971
In this article, George Miller described the religious problems with segregation. A Starkville First Baptist usher's refusal to allow Miller to enter the sanctuary sparked his musings on Christianity and segregation.

Newspaper article, Petition Signers Recommend Rapid Integration Of MSU Staffe, February 13, 1970
In this article, Hine reported that Industrial Psychology professor, Gerald Bayley, initiated the petition for faculty integration. Demands for immediate hiring of qualified Black professors indicated petitioners' skepticism that university…

Newspaper cartoon, Captain Magnolia,December 9, 1969
In this cartoon, the artist, Bob, ridiculed the pro-segregationist argument that Black Americans did not want their children to attend white schools. A klansman is depicted outside a school. The cartoonist used a caption bubble to note that…

Newspaper article, The Temptations Appear In Concert, October 7, 1969
In this article, the Reflector announced that the Student Association booked The Temptations for Homecoming. A publicity photograph of the group accompanies the article.
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