Collection Number: AC#255
Title:
Afro-American Society Collection
Dates:
1960s-1980s
Collection Size:
1 Folder
The Afro-American Society was a student run organization on the Missouri Southern campus from the 1960s through the 1980s. The Afro-American Society was organized to promote interest in the black experience and to connect black students on the Missouri Southern campus. As part of their organizational activities they instituted Black Awareness Week at Missouri Southern and in the city of Joplin, they worked with the Committee to rename Broadway Street to Langston Hughes Street in Joplin and hosted and participated in numerous activities on the Missouri Southern campus.
In the 1980s the organization would change their name to the Black Student Union, then to the Black Collegians in the early-1990s, and finally to Culturally Speaking in the mid-1990s.
One folder with photographs and documents specifically relating to the 1975 and 1976 Afro-American Society, a student organization at Missouri Southern State University.
Afro-American Society
Left to Right: Row 1: Aaron Johnson, Bill Hayles, Melvin Wilson, Michel Bauer, Randall Johnson; Row 2: Damon Clines, Robert Burks, Willie Williams, Kenric Conway, Larry Barnes, John Watson, Gordon David, Dr. Henry Morgan
Left to Right, Facing the camera: Robert Burks, Dr. Henry Morgan
Left to Right: Row 1: Robert Burks, Damon Clines, Aaron Johnson, Dr. Henry Morgan, Michel Bauer, Randy Johnson; Row 2: Larry Barnes, Willie Williams; Row 3: Bill Hayles, Kenric Conway, Melvin Wilson, John Watson, Gordon David
Left to Right: John Watson
Seated: Zsa Zsa Sands
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