Materials within Series 6: Scrapbooks include four scrapbooks, including: Scrapbook #1: Student Unrest, Scrapbook #2: Black Demands, 1969, Scrapbook #3: News Clips, and Scrapbook #4: Afro-Am Black Studies. These scrapbooks have news clippings, official college documents, magazine articles, and other materials on the protests that occurred on the campus of Springfield College for the rights of Black Students. Also included within are articles on activities and news created on other college campuses regarding the same issues. In particular Scrapbook #4 contains articles on Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and Martin Luther King Jr. along with items on civil rights protests on other campuses. See descriptions below for more information on individual scrapbooks:

Scrapbook 1: Student Unrest contains a variety of items pertaining to black student affairs at Springfield College. This scrapbook contains several pieces of correspondence between the black students pushing for equality and President Locklin, as well as transcripts of faculty meetings that occurred and discussed the question of civil rights.

Scrapbook 2: Black Demands 1969 contains a large number of memos, newspaper clippings, and administrative correspondence that is present in other folders in the collection. Several unique newspaper clippings exists, which primarily discuss the college’s public responses to the demands, but clippings of protests occurring in the greater Springfield area are also present. Scrapbook 2 may be a supplementto Scrapbook 1, but it is not confirmed on whether or not this is intentional.

MATERIALS NOTE CONCERNING SCRAPBOOK 2

The original physical scrapbook can be found in box 7. This is the only scrapbook in the collection that has not recycled. It has been kept so that students and researchers can see how the original materials were kept. Also it leaves open the possibilitiesto recreate the scrapbook to allow for exhibit and display.

Scrapbook 3: News Clippings primarily contains newspaper clippings in reference to the March 10 takeover of Massasoit Hall and the trial resulting from it. However, it also contains articles on the subsequent student body protests that occurred in the following months, such as the April 1970 Admissions building take over.

Scrapbook 4: Afro-Am Black Studies contains a reading list of literature made to inform and educate young black students on racial dynamics in America. The scrapbook also contains many newspaper articles, about topics such as national civil rights, debates over black studies programs, and teaches the reader about relevant black figures such as the Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. Newspaper clippings in the scrapbook talk about national civil rights protests on college campuses, as well as admissions numbers for college across the country, highlighting how many of each college’s student body were black.