"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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"Student War Protest Gets Faculty's Blessing"
Newspaper article describing the IU Faculty Council's decision to support the students' right to peaceful protest on the upcoming Vietnam Moratorium Day. In light of past events when students had faced punishment for "disrupting campus activities" there had been some uncertainty over whether students would face similar penalties for continued anti-war protests.
Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations July/Dec 69."
Louisville Courier-Journal
1969-10-8
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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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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 against them, and the meeting was in fact beneficial for all parties.
Taken from the IU Archives' reference file "Student Demonstrations May 1969"
Unnamed Faculty and Administrators of Indiana University
1969-05
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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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J. Gus Liebenow
Professor of Political Science, first Chairman of the African Studies Program
J. Gus Liebenow was born in Berwyn, Illinois and joined the Department of Government (later the Department of Political Science) in 1958 after earning a Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University, where he studied with Melville J. Herskovits. Liebenow was a renowned Liberia specialist, IU’s first Chairman of the African Studies Program, and a founding member of the African Studies Association (ASA).
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