Protest rally backs black students (April 11, 1970)
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Newspaper article titled, "Protest Rally Backs Black Students: Silent Majority Speaks out at SC" printed in the Springfield Union on April 11, 1970. The articles discusses the support the students had for those who participated in the takeover in April of 1970. There is a group on campus that identified anonymously as the silent majority. They showed their support by setting up a rally to promote changes in the school policies and culture to allow all students to receive proper education. 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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