The occupation of the administration building (1969)
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This document discusses the chronology of the black students' demands at Springfield College in 1969. The demands were presented to President Wilbert E. Locklin, the ninth president of Springfield College, by the Central Committee of the black students beginning in February of that year. The motion to accept the demands was denied, causing a number of students to enter Springfield's Administration Building and stay against orders overnight on May 14, 1969. Materials contained within this scrapbook were removed from the original physical scrapbook due to preservation issues. Most documents were originally glued to the pages of the scrapbook, but the glue was failing and the documents were becoming loose and were falling out of the scrapbook. Documents may already have lost their original order and/or may have been lost due to this damage. The damage was getting worse with every use. Therefore, to protect the documents and to facilitate use of the documents, the documents were remove. The documents were left in the order that they were found at the time of removal.
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