- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- SGA official resigns
- Creator:
- multiple
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Date of Original:
- 1973-04-09
- 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:
- These two letters to the editor of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), deal with the recent controversy surrounding the Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968. In the first, Dena F. Squires, Executive Secretary of the Student Government Association (SGA) announces her resignation in protest of a decision by university administration to override SGA's decision regarding recognition of the Neo Black Society. Squires argues that Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson had no authority in the matter and that he had made a "mockery" of SGA. The second, by campus minister James Abbott, criticizes the extreme positions and discord caused by the controversy, including legal threats. The Student Government Association had voted on March 26, 1973 to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society, based on allegations that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. 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/2243
- 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: