This collection includes articles and images from the Reflector, Mississippi State University’s student newspaper. This collection ranges from 1965-1975 and represents the first ten years after integration at MSU. The collection includes articles highlighting MSU Black student organizations, efforts to recruit students and faculty of color, MSU’s first Black student athletes, and notable speakers on campus.
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Newspaper article, Opportunity Is Equal, September 16, 1969
The Reflector
In this newspaper article, The Reflector described the university's first biracial magazine, Equal Opportunity. Magazine owners and staff hoped that it would encourage biracial understanding and cooperation.
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Newspaper article, Panel Hears Speaker Ban Controversy, January 10, 1969
The Reflector
In this newspaper article, Ole Miss and Mississippi State students filed legal paperwork with a Federal district court to compel the College Board to explain its rationale for banning Charles Evers.
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Newspaper article, Primitive Fears, September 26, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector discussed a racially motivated rock-throwing incident. The anonymous student author decried race prejudice as out of place at Mississippi State.
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Newspaper article, Reflector Staff, October 17, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector introduced its writing and editorial staff.
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Newspaper article, Rut, September 19, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the writer criticized the state legislature's move to appropriate public money for private education as the death of public schools in Mississippi. It would enable upper and middle class white Mississippians to remove their children from integrated public schools and effectively end public education in Mississippi.
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Newspaper article, SA Presents '69 Soul Spectacular, March 14, 1969
The Reflector
In this newspaper article, the Reflector advertised a Soul concert.
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Newspaper article, Souls Sponsor Discotheque, March 14, 1969
The Reflector
In this newspaper article, the Reflector covered the Afro-American Plus organization's workshop at the YMCA. Organization members described the workshop as a place and space for Black and white students to engage in dialogue.
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Newspaper article, Student Involvement Yields Confrontation: Old VS. New, October 3, 1969
The Reflector
On this page, the Reflector carried a selection of front page articles and a picture of students of the University Reform Movement at Union Hall. Community engagement is the predominate theme of the Reflector's front page.
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Newspaper article, Supreme Court Integration Decision Seen As Education Disaster, October 31, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector reported the Supreme Court's ruling on immediate desegregation as a defeat for President Richard Nixon's "all deliberate speed" approach to civil rights. The case that brought about this decision was filed by NAACP lawyer Norman Amaker at the Jackson district court.
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Newspaper article, Supreme Court Issues Mandate, November 4, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector reported that the Supreme Court ordered the Fifth Circuit Court to cease delays regarding desegregation. It required the Justice Department and NAACP as well as HEW to submite plans for desegregation.
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Newspaper article, Temptations Appear in SA Concert, September 19, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector announced that the Student Association booked its first concert for the fall semester.
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Newspaper article, The Temptations Appear In Concert, October 7, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector announced that the Student Association booked The Temptations for Homecoming. A publicity photograph of the group accompanies the article.
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Newspaper article, US Government Removes Deadline On Desegregation, October 28, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector claimed that white segregationists gained a victory in the legislative battle over desegregation of schools. Black civil rights advocates sought immediate integration, while white segregationists sought delays. Court attention on the question of speed of integration was interpreted as ground gained for segregationists.
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Newspaper article, Wooden Rooms, September 16, 1969
The Reflector
This article is a call for equal rights. Black students' integration into Mississippi State University was part of the broader movement for Civil Rights in the United States.
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Newspaper article, YMCA Cabinet Calls Its Continued Existence Into Question, November 7, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector noted that the YMCA Cabinet questioned whether or not it as a redundant organization regarding Student Affairs. It noted that Student Affairs actively engaged the student body to give students a voice in campus governance.
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Newspaper article, YMCA, November 21, 1969
The Reflector
In this article, the Reflector reported that the YMCA cabinet questioned its existence as an institution. The paper noted that the YMCA offered new Black students a place to stay as well as a forum to initiate changes on campus, along with other like-minded students. The question revolved around whether or not the YMCA cabinet achieved all that it could have done, and if an overhaul was necessary.
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Newspaper cartoon, Captain Magnolia, November 4, 1969
The Reflector
In this newspaper cartoon, the cartoonist satirized racism by depicting an interaction in which a white adult mistook a Black child's halloween costume for a Ku Klux Klan robe.
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Newspaper cartoon, Urban Renewal, November 21, 1969
The Reflector
In this political cartoon, the cartoonist satirized urban renewal as a façade that failed to address the deeper social issues that undergirded housing problems in the United States.The cartoon depicts an exterior mansion façade labelled "urban renewal" covering a wooden shack labelled "social problems."
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Newspaper clipping, Reflector staff, Dwight Presley, September 16, 1969
The Reflector
This advertisement is for The Reflector.
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Newspaper clipping, Reflector staff, September 12, 1969
The Reflector
This advertisement listed The Reflector's editors and the student paper's policies for letter writing and submissions.
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Newspaper photograph, AA Plus, October 07, 1969
The Reflector
In this photograph, student members of the AA Plus are pictured at a meeting at Union Small Auditorium.
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Newspaper photograph, Dwight Presley, September 23, 1969
The Reflector
In this photograph, a student volunteer, Dwight Presley is pictured interacting with a child.
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Newspaper photograph, Jim Landrum, YMCA Director, September 19, 1969
The Reflector
This photograph shows YMCA president, Jim Landrum, speaking at a panel.
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Newspaper photograph, Mississippi State Football Players, November 21, 1969
The Reflector
In this photograph, the Reflector pictured four Mississippi State football players in uniform on the field.
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Newspaper photograph, Mississippi State Football Players Sprint, December 12, 1969
The Reflector
In this photograph, the Reflector pictured three Mississippi state players sprinting on the field.