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Memo from the Joint Board of House Presidents Item Info
- Title:
- Memo from the Joint Board of House Presidents
- Creator:
- Joint Board of House of Presidents
- Date Created:
- 1971-11-29
- Description:
- This memo was sent by the Joint Board of the House of Presidents after the Burling Take Over. It references the tensions on campus between black and white members of Grinnell, and that all member of the Grinnell college community should respect the negotiations to alleviate the present tensions. The memo refers to the "NBC Manifesto", which was a racist satire of CBS’s Black Manifesto distributed soon after the take over.
- Subjects:
- Burling Library Takeover of '71 & '72 Reactions to the Takeover
- Location:
- Grinnell College
- Latitude:
- 41.74859288862407
- Longitude:
- -92.72189644676367
- Source:
- Grinnell College
- Type:
- text;scanned
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Memo from the Joint Board of House Presidents", The Burling Library Takeover & The Creation of The Black Library, Grinnell College Libraries
- Reference Link:
- /items/dg_1712600284.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).