"We've Just Got to Get Together": African American Students Unite in the 1970s

Lynn E. Niedermeier, Western Kentucky University

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Adapted (with permission) from echo (www.wku.edu/echo), January/February 2007.

Abstract

In the early 1970s, African American students at Western Kentucky University took the first steps toward organizing themselves into a strong voice on campus, supporting a curriculum of black studies, sponsoring social and cultural events, and protesting discriminatory activity.