Black experience in America

Scope and Contents In this interview, Louis Adamsel speaks on his time as an undergraduate student at California State University San Marcos, aspects of his life as a student leader, his experience as a Black student and, later, as a staff member. Adamsel discusses his experience advocating for the opening of the Black Student Center and the purpose the BSC serves to students, including the necessity of having a variety of resources in order to retain underserved students. He also speaks on mentorships and...

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In this interview, Berhane discusses his immigration journey, involvement with the Cross-Cultural Center, campus Greek life, and other student centers at California State University San Marcos.

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In her 2021 interview, Boyd describes the process by which she and her fellow Associated Students Incorporated cohorts at California State University San Marcos proposed the idea of the Black Student Center. She also discusses the politics that were involved in the advocating for and implementing the Center, and who were major contributors to helping bring the CSUSM Black Student Center to life.

Scope and Contents "'Hip' Barred at Border" [satirical article about hippies being turned away by Mexican authories]; "Black Student Council Honors Malcom X"; "Sailors Duped in Pot Bust: 11 Charged"; "Free Huey [Newton, Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party]; "SMC Conference Student Strike" [Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]; "Irresolute Faculty Does It Again" [Faculty Senate at San Diego State College defeat Vietnam War resolutions]; "You're Free To Go" [police harassment at traffic...

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Jamaéla Johnson is an alumna of California State University San Marcos. While at CSUSM, she worked in various capacities on campus with the Gender Equity Center, the Black Student Union, and Associated Students Incorporated (ASI). Much of her work involved talking and working with fellow students regarding their shared needs around campus. In her interview, Johnson discusses her roles in advocating for the Black Student Center, as well as the journey towards the Center's opening.

Scope and Contents "The Big Lie Laid On Children" [Cycle of socialization of middle-class American values]; "Iconoclastic Spastic: Spastic Solves the Problems of Ecology"; "Letters to the Editor"; "XEMO, A Racist Station" [San Diego AM radio station]; "Book Review" [Star Sine Make it / Richard Brautigan]; "Can a Black Make It?" [Black people in politics]; "CIC to Continue?" [Citizens Interracial Committee, San Diego]; "Wanta Go to Vietnam?"; "The Frustration Wall" [popular hang out for youth in Ocean Beach...

Scope and Contents "Moratorium March" [San Diego Citizen's Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam sponsoring anti-war march on 4/11/1970]; "Busted Bus" [police brutality, arrest of Joe Loud and James W. Morgan]; "Busted Bust" [arrest of and pasties for Janice, dancer at Les Girls - related to "Busted Bus" story]; "What's Happening?" [Students Freed From Nosey Meddlers (Fitchburg State College); The Sears Catalog of Diaster; Black Profiles (Alabama KKK attack Black Muslim ranch; Richard E. Ranger...

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In this interview Stevenson discusses her impact on campus, including the way she helped get the Black Student Center open through student impact and support. She also discusses her experience as a Black student and CSUSM employee.

Scope and Contents Black Man In America: Chronology & Milstones of the Black Man in America from 1492 to 1966, In Commemoration of Afro-American Emphasis Week in San Diego, Feb 10-17; Peace Pilgrim Plods to Pacific; Editorial ; TD Interview with Suspected Undercover Policeman; The Demise of Ramparts [liberal Catholic quarterly]; HIPpocrates: Widening the Generation Gap; Isolation and Intervention -- Dr. Fred Warner Neal; The Drug Thing' Movie Review [Romeo and Juliet]; Where to Buy Teaspoon Door;...

Scope and Contents [Comics: V-8 Hijinks, Fourth Estate Funnies, Weird Romances, Studly, Little Ingrid]; "Reader's Soapbox: Hippies & Colour"; [Letters to the Editor]; "The Black and White Experience"; "Short Notes: PRG [Provisionary Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam] & FBI; Stawberry UFWOC [United Farm Worker Organizing Committee]; Military; Bobby Seale & Ericka Huggins; Witches [Anne Steward, teacher retiring after being accused of being a witch]; "Harpoon Man" [Hawaii Harpoon undergound...