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Title
Photographs of the black student takeover, 1970 February 18
Contributor
Photographer: Gerhard, Jim, 1942-1971
Genre
Creation Information
Date Created
1970-02-18
Location
Note
Original 35mm and 120 (roll film) black and white negatives digitized positive.
Physical Description
196 photographs
Abstract
Photographs of campus events on February 18, 1970, following the pre-dawn occupation of several Amherst College campus buildings by black students from the Five Colleges. Photographs show various administrators working in Morgan Hall during the takeover, white students beginning to organize a student strike in solidarity with black students, a meeting of the Five College Black United Front at which Bill Hassan spoke over WAMF in Coolidge Cage in the Alumni Gymnasium and Athletic Complex, a student-led meeting in Johnson Chapel, and President Plimpton and Prosser Gifford leading an open campus meeting at Johnson Chapel to go over the day's events. Images cover Calvin Hastings Plimpton speaking with students at WAMF (later WAMH) radio station and hearing demands from the Five College Black Community, presented by Wilburn Williams inside the President's House in front of a large crowd of journalists and photographers. Also included are photographs of a press conference over WAMF radio led by black students. These photographs are assumed to have been taken by the College Photographer for the Office of Public Affairs (now the Office of Communications). Jim Gerhard was the College Photographer from the mid-1960s to 1971.
Subjects
Shelf Location
Job 70-016-1 through 7
Finding Aid
Repository
List of All Images
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