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Black Purdue documentary film

Purdue University
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Drawing upon numerous sources, including books on Purdue, newspaper archives, yearbooks and nearly 25 hours of personal interviews with black alumni, this documentary begins at a time when black students were denied campus food and housing, were barred from campus social life, and banned from college sports. It records the subsequent decades of struggle, the on-campus protests in the 1960s and the steady progress over the years that accorded black students equal rights. ...more
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I Would Say that We Have Created a Family Kind of an Environment for Young People That Come Here Not Just Engineering Students but any Student That Might Come into Our Offices for Help To Be Called Mama It's Probably a Reflection of that Family Feel Just as I Would Call Marion Mom and a Lot of Students all Married as the Mom Away from Home the One That Kept You in Check Even When Your Own Mother Didn't Know What You Were Doing Students See that in Me As Well outside of the Fact that I Fry a Lot of Chicken and and I Have Them Over to the House on the Weekends and You Know They Can Pretty Much Come to Me for Whatever Situation Might Be Going On in Their Lives I Keep a Box of Kleenex in My Office

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Black Purdue documentary film
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2009Nov 24
Drawing upon numerous sources, including books on Purdue, newspaper archives, yearbooks and nearly 25 hours of personal interviews with black alumni, this documentary begins at a time when black students were denied campus food and housing, were barred from campus social life, and banned from college sports. It records the subsequent decades of struggle, the on-campus protests in the 1960s and the steady progress over the years that accorded black students equal rights.

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Purdue University

88.1K subscribers