Blacks Defy Order, Hold Dorm at SC (March 11, 1970)
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A newspaper article published by the Springfield Union in Springfield, Massachusetts titled "Blacks Defy Order, Hold Dorm at SC. The article is dated March 11, 1970. The article talks about a court order that issued the previous night for students that had taken over Massasoit Hall on the campus of Springfield College to vacate the building, the reaction to the order, and the events that had occurred both before and after the court order. There are photos of a sign on the building and of the president, Wilbert Locklin, and Dean, John Costello, within the article. 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.; Was also glued to yellow notebook paper, but this became detached and was discarded. It had the date March 1970 written on it. The original scan shows this. ;
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