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Proposal to Move AAL to HPNL
May 13, 2008
Afro-American Bibliographic Unit to join the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library

Black Thursday Digital Exhibit
Apr 30, 2008
Wisconsin State University of Oshkosh's Polk Library has created an on-line exhibit about the the 1968 black student protest on campus entitled “Do Your Thing.”

New National Biography launched
Apr 24, 2008
The most extensive and inclusive collection of biographical information about African American lives ever published.

New Genealogy Web site
Apr 23, 2008
Lowcountry Africana documents heritage of African Americans in the rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida.

Wheatley First Edition Goes to SIUC
Apr 22, 2008
First book of African American poetry donated to Morris Library

Black Thursday Digital Exhibit

Apr 30, 2008

On the morning of November 21, 1968, 96 black students, members of the newly formed Black Student Union, crowded into president Roger E. Guiles office. They presented him with a list of demands, which included the creation of courses in black culture in the literature, history, and language disciplines. The protest was one of many such campus race riots across the country beginning in the summer of 1967. Part of the UW-Oshkosh experience at that time was whites staring at blacks or the “ Oshkosh Stare” as it became known. According to a senior history internship by Mike Reuter titled, “ Do Your Thing,” one black student remembered Oshkosh as having a “ conservative, even menacing, social atmosphere.” Reuter’s 2002 exhibit is published online by Polk Library’s Archive and Area Research Center.  The url for the digital exhibit is  <http://www.uwosh.edu/archives/bt/about.htm>.