This February 12, 1973, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), reports on a challenge made in the Student Government Association (SGA) Committee on Classification of Organizations that the Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968, was in violation of the SGA constitution. Several senators argued that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. On March 26, 1973, SGA had voted to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society. The SGA decision was overturned by university administration on the basis of faulty evidence and improper procedure by SGA, resulting in an eventual legal filing by SGA members. At the beginning of the 1973-74 school year, the Neo Black Society was reinstated by SGA as a recognized and funded student organization after revising its constitution to reflect that membership was open to all students without regard to race.
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text
Original format
clippings
Original dimensions
Microfilm
Original publisher
Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Language
en
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
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Object ID
CarolinanCRG.0858
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
