Archival Sources

The Archives webpage presents more information about the primary sources used in our exhibition.
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a limited student exchange
a marketplace of radical ideas
southern activism and a northern campus
attention must be paid
all the truth we can get
cultural pride as activism

A Limited Student Exchange: Bryn Mawr and Southern Historically Black Colleges and Universities

  • Exchange Students
  • Christie Sawyer
  • Exchanges To Livingstone Stress Gain In New Friendships and Understanding
  • Exchange Students Visit Our Campus
  • A Limited Exchange
  • Marva Belew
  • Open End
  • George Edwards
  • James Gavin
  • Margaret Michael
  • Haverford College Students’ Council Newsletter #6
  • Nelson Glaze
  • Thomas Earl Gills
  • Letter to Berta Hamilton
  • Edgar French
  • Dorothy Kilgore
  • Mae Frances Crawford
  • A Fair Exchange
  • Active Students from Livingstone Won’t Forget “Shoeless” BMC
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A Marketplace of Radical Ideas: The Second American Revolution Conference at Bryn Mawr College (February 7-9, 1964)

  • Second American Revolution Brochure Exterior
  • Second American Revolution Conference Brochure Interior
  • Purpose—”the Second American Revolution”
  • White and Negro Clash at Parley
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Plotting the Revolution
  • Kathy Boudin
  • Malcolm X
  • John Hope Franklin
  • James Forman
  • James Farmer
  • Herbert Hill
  • James J. Kilpatrick
  • Anti-Vietnam War Protest
  • The Strike Will Continue Indefinitely
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Southern Activism And A Northern Campus: Bryn Mawr Students in Solidarity with the Fight for Civil Rights

  • Bryn Mawr Alliance Political Affairs to James Meredith
  • Letter From a Freedom Rider
  • The Summer and Social Action
  • Letters to the Editor, The College News (November 22, 1963) p. 2. Bryn Mawr Special Collections.
  • Mississippi Freedom Project Pamphlet
  • A student at the Bryn Mawr protest
  • Student Picketers
  • “Freedom group hangs signs on bus,” 1961. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)  
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Attention Must Be Paid: Students Speak Out Against the Maids and Porters System

Maids and Porters – Housekeeping – Clippings and Misc.
Maids and Porters – Housekeeping – Clippings and Misc.
Maids and Porters – Housekeeping – Clippings and Misc.
Attention Must be Paid (transcript)

List of demands submitted by Bryn Mawr’s African American student population to President Katherine MacBride
Combined Meeting of Executive and Advisory Boards
Minutes of the Executive Board
Meeting With Miss McBride to Discuss Maids and Porters System
Civil Rights Club
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All The Truth We Can Get: The Beginnings of the Bryn Mawr College Black Studies Program

  • Bryn Mawr College Black Studies Committee: Proposed Budget
  • Protesters with bullhorn and sign that reads, ‘Power to the people – support the strike,’ San Francisco State College strike, 1968-1969.
  • Yearbook photograph of Mindy Thompson. She wears a dashiki and Afro and is smiling and holding a small dog.
    Mindy Thompson
  • Bryn Mawr Black Students’ Proposals
  • Clifton R. Jones
  • Black Existence Course
  • H. Rap Brown speaking outside of Hamilton Hall [Columbia University]
  • Bryn Mawr Black Students Submit Proposals on Studies to Community
  • Renee Bowser, Class of 1970
  • Hand-drawn pen-and-ink map of West Africa, featuring different peoples and geographic entities
    From “The Nations of Nigeria”
  • Newspaper article with photograph of Herbert Aptheker, a white-haired white man with horn-rimmed glasses
    Won’t Try to Indoctrinate Anybody, Bryn Mawr’s Marxist Lecturer Says
  • College Hall, U. of P., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1969
  • Dora Chizea
  • May Day 1969
  • Brenda Jefferson
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Cultural Pride as Activism: The Black Arts Festivals at the Bi-Co (1968, 1969)

  • The Black Arts Festival
  • Renee Bowser, Class of 1970
  • Bryn Mawr College-Haverford College Festival of The Black Arts Program Envelope
  • Political Science Students Plan Black Arts Festival
  • Lois J. Portnoy, Class of 1968
  • “Bryn Mawrtyr Jackie Williams with Cleveland Sellers”
  • Wonza Williamson, Class of 1968
  • Black Arts Festival To Begin Tomorrow
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra
  • Lois J. Portnoy, Class of 1968
  • Black Awareness
  • Elizabeth M. Schneider, Class of 1968
  • Bryn Mawr College-Haverford College Festival of The Black Arts Program
  • Local Colleges To Hold Festival of Black Arts
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