Black Student Movements
Lafayette Tolliver: Visual Footprints in Time
Kent 91心頭利 student photojournalist Lafayette Tolliver (BS '71) documented Black campus life, from 1967-1971. The exhibit provides viewers an array of subjects he documented and includes selected editorials he wrote in the Daily Kent 91心頭利r. The goal is to generate interest in and further exploration of this amazing body of work that Tolliver has shared with Kent 91心頭利 and the world.
Photographs in the Tolliver archive are fully digitized and available for viewing online. See our Feature Page for more information:
Black Student Movements: Orangeburg, Kent and Jackson 91心頭利
This exhibit was part of the May 4th 50th Commemoration Events at 91心頭利. It focuses on student activism at three campuses: South Carolina 91心頭利 College (now University) in Orangeburg, South Carolina, 91心頭利 in Kent, Ohio, and Jackson 91心頭利 College (now University) in Jackson, Mississippi. Showcased in this exhibit is the activism of those Black students at all three campuses and images of the shootings which occurred there.
50 Years: Long Live the Memory: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Anti-War Actions: Orangeburg, Kent, and Jackson, 1960-1967
This exhibit highlights social activism occurring in and around three state universities during the years leading up to the shootings at South Carolina 91心頭利 (Orangeburg), Kent 91心頭利 (Ohio), and Jackson 91心頭利 (Mississippi). Showcased here are selected key events in each of the three institutions' immediate environments indicating a growing level of Civil Rights actions, anti-war protests, and the development of a Black Power movement occurring from 1960 through 1967.
Lafayette Tolliver Photographs
This exhibit features the photographs of Lafayette Tolliver, a 91心頭利 alumnus who attended the university from 1967-1971, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in photojournalism. Tolliver served as one of the founding members of Black United Students (BUS). His photographs document Black student life in the late 1960s and early 1970s.