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Clipping from page 8 of the May 14, 1982 issue of The Oracle student newspaper announcing Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's Little Miss AKA Pageant and AKA Ball.

Page 6 of the minutes of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute faculty meeting held on March 19, 1956. Includes a summary of President Everett Derryberry's report on the Tennessee State Board of Education's five-year plan for gradual desegregation in…

Around 1916, a Tech committee chose our school colors and the letter writer from the corresponding document that accompanied this scrapbook page was on that committee. The committee dismissed black and gold because of Vanderbilt and chose green and…

Hat all freshmen wore during their first term on campus. It was gold and purple and had the student’s name in it. This was part of many hazing rituals that freshmen partook in their first semester at Tennessee Tech.

Plan for the conversion of University Center Room 124 into the Black Culture Center. The drawing features a wall of three cubicles for the Black Student Organization, National Society of Black Engineers, and the Black Culture Center Director. Another…

Black and white graphic of the façade of a classical Greek building. The building has two large columns, a pointed roof, steps leading up to the entrance, and tall double doors. The architrave just above the columns is labeled "Black Culture Center."

Clipping on Black History Month events for February 1990. Includes an article on an exhibition of portraits of Jazz musicians and a schedule of three lectures. The clipping is from The Oracle.

Clipping of "On the Pulse of Morning" by Maya Angelou published in the Tennessee Tech student newspaper, The Oracle. Angelou read the poem at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993.