Archives #5: Quilts and Flunk Day
Clementine Hunter The quilt that Clementine Hunter made of Melrose Plantation. Clementine Hunter was a plantation worker born in 1886. She spent most of her life working on the Melrose…
Archive post #3 Brotherly Hate & Letter to the editor
These articles are from a TKS edition on February 7th, 1969. In the February 7th, 1969, edition, A.B.L.E. submitted a statement written by Voice of The White People to TKS….
Archives #4: A.B.L.E. House and Student Life
A.B.L.E.’s Ten Demands List of ten demands that A.B.L.E. presented to the Dean and President of Knox, 1969. Allied Blacks for Liberty and Equality (later known as A.B.L.E.) made ten…
James E. Groppi at Knox (archive 4)
The above two images are newspaper clippings from 1969, when James E. Groppi, a catholic priest and activist spoke at Knox College. This led to a violent outcome as the…
Archive post #4 A.B.L.E. Demands
This photo is from one of the A.BL.E. boxes in the special archives room. In 1969, A.B.L.E. students presented a list of demands to the college administration, their goal was…
Archives 4 – LeRoi Jones Lecture at Knox – ES
The image on the left is an excerpt from the Register Mail to inform people that LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) would be coming to Knox to give a lecture for…
Alfreda Dortch Interview
R1/ Excerpt 9: 42:50 – 46:41 And so I got home with my daughter and the house was dark. I said, Leroy what’s going on? And he said, I’m so…
Alfreda Dortch Williams & The Founding of A.B.L.E.
Pictured is an article in the “Knox Alumnus” published June 1999 titled, “The Long, Long, A.B.L.E.: A.B.L.E. Students from Three Decades Reflect” by Audrey Petty, ’90. We listened to excerpts…
Archives 3 – Oral History – ES
Listening to a recording of an interview was something I had never done before. It was fascinating to hear the difference in the way Alfreda Dortch Williams spoke versus what…
Archives #3: An Oral History
In class, we listened to an audio interview with Alfreda Dortch Williams. In these excerpts of the recordings we heard, Williams described her experience growing up, existing in a mostly…
A.B.L.E. Calendar, March 1995
This is a calendar made by the A.B.L.E. (Allied Blacks for Liberty and Equality) Club. Established in 1995, ABLE was a group founded to create awareness for the Black community…
Archives #2
(Sorry this is late, I wanted to include everything that I found and it took a while.) May 1970 Sit-in Students Are Revolting participating in a sit-in within the Dean’s…