Civil Rights, Social Justice
Lafayette Tolliver: Visual Footprints in Time
91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ student photojournalist Lafayette Tolliver (BS '71) documented Black campus life, from 1967-1971. The exhibit provides viewers an array of subjects he documented and includes selected editorials he wrote in the Daily 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵr. The goal is to generate interest in and further exploration of this amazing body of work that Tolliver has shared with 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and the world.
Photographs in the Tolliver archive are fully digitized and available for viewing online. See our Feature Page for more information:
Black Student Movements: Orangeburg, Kent and Jackson State
This exhibit was part of the May 4th 50th Commemoration Events at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University. It focuses on student activism at three campuses: South Carolina State College (now University) in Orangeburg, South Carolina, 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University in Kent, Ohio, and Jackson State College (now University) in Jackson, Mississippi. Showcased in this exhibit is the activism of those Black students at all three campuses and images of the shootings which occurred there.
50 Years: Long Live the Memory: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Anti-War Actions: Orangeburg, Kent, and Jackson, 1960-1967
This exhibit highlights social activism occurring in and around three state universities during the years leading up to the shootings at South Carolina State (Orangeburg), 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (Ohio), and Jackson State (Mississippi). Showcased here are selected key events in each of the three institutions' immediate environments indicating a growing level of Civil Rights actions, anti-war protests, and the development of a Black Power movement occurring from 1960 through 1967.