Umoja (Black student union) activists near sign for Boston University Administrative offices, during occupation of administration building (one man blocking the camera with a briefcase)

Item Information

Title:
Umoja (Black student union) activists near sign for Boston University Administrative offices, during occupation of administration building (one man blocking the camera with a briefcase)
Description:
From a series of images labeled "Umoja taveoker of administration building." Umoja, the Black Student Union at Boston University, occupied the administration building for twelve hours before winning concessions on nine demands from President Armand Christ-Janer including appointing a Martin Luther King Chair of Social Ethics; establishing an Afro-American Affairs Coordinating Center; increasing efforts to recruit and retain Black students and faculty; and making efforts to make the papers of Martin Luther King as complete as possible.
Photographer:
Simon, Peter, 1947-
Date:
April 25, 1968
Format:
Photographs
Manuscripts
Genre:
Black-and-white negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
The American Revolution Documentary Collection
Peter Simon Collection
Subjects:
African American student movements--Massachusetts--Boston--Photographs
Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Boston--Photographs
Student protesters--Massachusetts--Boston--Photographs
Boston University
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 photograph ; 35 mm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph009-v05-sl088-i015
Terms of Use:
Copyright is held by Peter Simon. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Boston (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph009-v05-sl088-i015