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Founders Day Statement
Statement left behind by honor students who walked out of the 1969 Founders Day ceremonies in protest of fee hikes. A contemporary...
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"Rally Vote Ends Boycott"
Newspaper article describing the student vote to end the class boycott in protest of fee hikes.
Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations...
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McKinney Flyer
Flyer distributed at protests listing the alleged misdeeds of Indiana University Board of Trustees chairman Frank McKinney. McKinney was widely blamed by students...
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1969, demonstrations, student fees, student unrest, trustees, tuition
"Senate Accepts Temporary Settlement"
Newspaper article describing a Student Senate resolution to put the issue of fee hikes to rest temporarily.
Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student...
"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"...