"State Joins Probe in 'Market' Blaze"
Newspaper article discussing both the faculty plea for funds to rebuild The Black Market, and the ongoing police investigation into the firebombing of The Black Market, which occurred on December 26, 1968.
Taken from IU Archives' reference file "Black Market Fire - Dec. 26, 1968."
Daily Herald-Telephone
1969-01-08
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AAUP Black Market Statement
Statement issued by the Indiana University chapter of the American Association of University Professors expressing shock and dismay over the firebombing of The Black Market.
Taken from IU Archives' reference file "Black Market Fire - Dec. 26, 1968."
American Association of University Professors
1969-01
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Faculty Council Circular #52
Circular soliciting donations from faculty members to help out the owners of The Black Market in the wake of its firebombing.
Taken from IU Archives' reference file "Black Market Fire - Dec. 26, 1968."
Philip Appleman
1969-01
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"Black Market Needs Financial Help"
Newspaper editorial appealing for financial assistance for the owners of The Black Market in the wake of its firebombing.
Taken from IU Archives' reference file "Black Market Fire - Dec. 26, 1968."
Indiana Daily Student
1969-01-07
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"Confirm Arson in Bloomington Business Fire"
Newspaper article describing the police investigation into the fire that destroyed The Black Market. Arson was quickly determined as the cause of the fire, with several members of the Ku Klux Klan arested in the aftermath.
Taken from IU Archives' reference file "Black Market Fire - Dec. 26, 1968."
Daily Herald-Telephone
1968-12-29
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Black Market Burns
Newspaper article describing the fire that destroyed The Black Market on December 26, 1968.
Taken from IU Archives' reference file "Black Market Fire - Dec. 26, 1968."
Daily Herald-Telephone
1968-12-27
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"Why the Black Students are Sitting-In"
Flyer listing reasons for the Black students' sit-in at site of the Little 500. The students were protesting discriminatory clauses found in the national charters of fraternities.
Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations - Little 500 1968."
United Anti-Racist Movement
1968-05-11
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Turner at Little 500 Sit-in
<p>Photograph depicting Clarence "Rollo" Turner and other black students speaking to press during the 1968 Little 500 Sit-in. Few photographs of the event have survived.</p>
<p>Taken from the 1969 Arbutus.</p>
Arbutus
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