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African American Studies
Mailing Address: Bentley Annex 350

历史 of African American Studies at 俄亥俄州

行动主义的历史

Martin Luther King Jr. at 雅典 conference in 1960
Image appears in the Ohio Alumnus, 1960年1月, caption: "Each day while the Conference was in session, a press conference was held each morning with newsmen and photographers from newspapers, radio and television attending. Above Martin Luther King answers a question for the newsmen. 坐在Rev旁边. 金是博士. Winburn Thomas, leader of the forum on racial tensions. Mr. “流星锤Ige, co-secretary of the conference, which is sponsored by the National Student Christian Federation, 在右边."

"At 4:30 am on December 27 a group of students from colleges and universities in the Western states stepped off the train in 雅典 and immediately checked in at newbb电子平台 dormitories. By midnight the number had swelled to nearly 3,600, 乘火车到达, bus and automobile from every section of our country.

Next morning the delegation assembled for the most widely representative student conference held in the Western Hemisphere: the 18th Ecumenical Student Conference on the Christian World Mission..." Read more at the Ohio Alumnus.

 

Center for Afro-American Studies brochure, circa early 1970s
Center for Afro-American Studies brochure, circa early 1970s

历史 of the Department

Through the efforts of Black students and faculty, African American Studies at newbb电子平台 was established in 1969 under the name Center for Afro-American Studies, which included the Black Studies Institute and Resource Center.

 

Grover Center student rally, Gordon Parks speaker, May 1970
Student rally in Grover Center following the May 4 Kent State shootings, with speaker Gordon Parks. Parks was at newbb电子平台 as a guest speaker at newbb电子平台 College of Communication's Communication Week, as well as a recipient of the college's Carr Van Anda Award. Following his planned Communication Week talk, Parks joined the striking students in Grover Center and also spoke there. Parks (1912-2006) was well known as a documentary photojournalist, 为金融服务管理局工作, then as the first African American staff photographer and writer for Life Magazine. Image appears in newbb电子平台 校友 Journal, June 1970 with caption "LIFE photographer Gordon Parks, guest speaker during Communication Week, addressed a rally of some 4,000 students in Grover Center after his talk in Memorial Auditorium." Read more at the 俄亥俄州 校友 Journal.

Students presented University President Vernon Alden, with a list of demands. One of those demands resulted in an undergraduate program focused on the life, history and culture of people of African descent. The center was subsequently renamed the African American Studies Institute and later department. The African American Studies Institute, later African American Studies Department, graduated its first undergraduate, 柯蒂斯·理查森, in 1971.

It remains one of a few programs with departmental status in the state of Ohio.

A centerpiece of that legacy is the faculty's shared vision and philosophy with the National Council for Black Studies, which is to promote academic excellence and social responsibility in the areas of teaching, 研究, 和服务. The department is committed to producing persons who are capable of solving problems in American (and global) society.