BSMU Challenges King Report
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Title
BSMU Challenges King Report
Subject
BSMU members call on the college to see the actual tangible changes to racial diversity within the student body that are highlighted in the MLK report.
Description
Volume 64, Number 20
Creator
Steve Early
Publisher
The Campus
Date
04/17/1969
Contributor
Fred Brown- BSMU Member
Coverage
"'A lily white campus would be better than a rent-a-negro plan to integrate social functions and bring about superficial cultural diversity... 1.7 percent of the student body is black: that is mere tokenism. Black students will not stand for being the white man's token.' With these angry words Fred Brown of the Middlebury Black Students For Mutual Understanding last Friday called upon the college to make a firm commitment to the recommendations in the King Commission concerning the recruitment and admission of more underprivileged black and minority group students."
"[Fred Brown] said that the BSMU cannot accept the fact that only five or six blacks will be entering with the freshman class next fall and he asked that the college agree to admit more black students every year so that within ten years 10 percent of the student body will be non-black."
"[Fred Brown] said that the BSMU cannot accept the fact that only five or six blacks will be entering with the freshman class next fall and he asked that the college agree to admit more black students every year so that within ten years 10 percent of the student body will be non-black."
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Steve Early , “BSMU Challenges King Report,” Archives of Anti-Racist Activism, accessed October 27, 2026, https://twilightprojectantiracistrecords.middcreate.net/items/show/212.