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Burling Library Takeover Commemoration, 2006 Item Info
- Title:
- Burling Library Takeover Commemoration, 2006
- Date Created:
- 2006
- Description:
- This photograph was taken in 2006 at an event commemorating the 1971 takeover of Burling Library by CBS (Concerned Black Students). Fifty-five students with candles, representing the fifty-five students who took over Burling in 1971, marched from the Black Culture Center (BCC) to Burling. Once at Burling, the group read the Black Manifesto, enjoyed the Young, Gifted, and Black Gospel Choir’s performance, held a poetry reading, and discussed the ways the Burling Takeover changed Grinnell.
- Subjects:
- Burling Takeover Commemorations Burling Library Concerned Black Students (CBS) Black Library
- Location:
- Burling Library
- Latitude:
- 41.746718787662246
- Longitude:
- -92.72028416032282
- Source:
- Grinnell College
- Source Identifier:
- grinnell;31972
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/tiff
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Burling Library Takeover Commemoration, 2006", The Burling Library Takeover & The Creation of The Black Library, Grinnell College Libraries
- Reference Link:
- /items/grinnell_31972.html
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- 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.).