- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Faculty give commentary regarding NBS
- Creator:
- Helgeson, James E.
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Date of Original:
- 1973-03-28
- Subject:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Neo-Black Society (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- clippings (information artifacts)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this commentary published March 28, 1973 in The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), English professor James E, Helgeson expresses dismay at the decision of the Student Government Association (SGA) to removed recognition from the Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968. Helgeson states that the Neo Black Society had considerable faculty support and that claims against it were unsubstantiated. He further argues that the organization might well be justified in trying to discourage whites from joining. Several senators had argued beginning in February, 1973, that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. While the committee cleared the Neo Black Society, on March 26, 1973, SGA voted to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society. The SGA decision was overturned by university administration on the basis of faulty evidence and improper procedure by SGA, resulting in an eventual legal filing by SGA members. At the beginning of the 1973-74 school year, the Neo Black Society was reinstated by SGA as a recognized and funded student organization after revising its constitution to reflect that membership was open to all students without regard to race.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1948
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
- Original Collection:
- The full run of The Carolinian, from which this article is taken, is available online at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/Carolinian
The Carolinian (Civil Rights Clippings)
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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