Bryn Mawr Black Students’ Proposals

As Black Students we are deeply concerned that Bryn Mawr College break with
the patterns of falsification and omission that have characterized the treatment of the
role and contribution of the Black people to America, and all over the world. Bryn
Mawr must deal with racism on its campus and in its courses.

We demand that the college begin to act on the proposals submitted by the Black
Students Committee, in particular:
(1)	Recognition of the Committee and its functions;
(2)	Addition of the five proposed course to the curriculum. These include: Black
Intellectual History, the History of the American Working Class, the Black Family,
Black Political Participation, and the Black Urban Experience;
(3)	Reviewing and changing courses presently in the curriculum to insure that they
adequately deal with the role of the Black people and instituting a training course
to prepare faculty to include this material in their courses:
(4)	Hiring of four faculty members in the area of Black studies;
(5)	Updating the library adequately to deal with Black Studies and in particular
full representation of the Black, authors in the field:
(6)	Provision of funds to cover the costs of this program.

We feel that these demands are reasonable and just. We hope that the Administration
will move on these demands and, instead of raising petty obstacles to the realization
of these proposals, will, by April 25,1969, be able to give us definite answers to them.