Article
"We've Just Got to Get Together": African-American Students Unite in the 1970s
Echo
(2007)
Abstract
In the early 1970s, African-American students at WKU 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 treatment.
Keywords
- integration,
- segregation,
- WKU black students,
- Miss Black Western
Disciplines
Publication Date
January, 2007
Publisher Statement
Adapted (with permission) from echo, a WKU online magazine, January/February 2007.
Citation Information
Lynn E. Niedermeier. ""We've Just Got to Get Together": African-American Students Unite in the 1970s" Echo (2007) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lynn_niedermeier/16/