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"IDS Questioned"
Letter to the editor of the Indiana Daily Student in reaction to its previous editorial requesting student donations to help compensate the owners of...
"Local Man Enters Guilty Plea"
Newspaper article describing the court proceedings for those individuals accused of starting the Dec 26, 1968 Black Market fire. Both men were ultimately...
Black Students Join Protest
Newspaper photograph depicting black students joining a rally in Dunn Meadow. The rally was one of many protesting fee hikes for the following...
"Blacks Lock Negotiators in Ballantine"
Newspaper article describing the events of the night of May 8, 1969. That night over 100 African-American students "locked in" student leaders and...
Ballantine Police
Newspaper article describing the readiness of police to intervene during the Ballantine Lock-in should it have been deemed necessary. No police entered the...
A Sleepless Night
Newspaper photograph depicting Indiana University Acting Chancellor John Snyder emerging from Ballantine hall after African-American students had "locked in" negotiators for a number of...
Ballantine Hall Lobby
Newspaper photograph depicting Indiana University students gathering in the lobby of Ballantine hall while administrators were being locked-in by African American students elsewhere in...
Snyder and Student
Newspaper photograph depicting Indiana University Acting Chancellor John Snyder smiling with a student at the end of the Ballantine lock-in.
Taken from the IU Archives'...
Hooker to Berry Letter
Letter from Bloomington Mayor John Hooker to Monroe County Prosecutor Thomas Berry. Hooker wanted a Grand Jury investigation into the so-called "Ballantine lock-in"...
Ballantine Faculty & Administrators' Statement
Statement issued by faculty members and administrators who were present during the Ballantine Lock-in. They state that at no time was violence threatened...