- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Student announces charges
- Creator:
- Carpenter, Mark
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Date of Original:
- 1973-03-26
- 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 March 26, 1973, letter to The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), Mark Carpenter outlines charges of racial discrimination against the Neo Black Society to be discussed in a student senate hearing that night. Carpenter was one of several senators who challenged the status of the Neo Black Society, arguing that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. While the Committee on Classification of Organizations 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/2056
- 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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