BASIB

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This November 8, 1968 editorial by staff writer Mark Lessner was published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, and highlights the stereotyping of black students on the Guilford College campus. The student organization, Brothers and Sisters in Blackness (BASIB), formed at the college that same year and challenged stereotypes and assumptions about black students and the role of African-Americans in society and history.

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Title: BASIB
Who's responsible?: Lessner, Mark K. (Creator)
Additional historical information: Mark K. Lessner was a staff writer for The Guilfordian, Guilford College's student newspaper, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He graduated with the class of 1970.
Original creation or publication date: 1968-11-08
Place: Greensboro (N.C.)
Decade: 1960-1969
Type of item: text
Original format: clippings
Subject headings: Guilford College
Topics: North Carolina
African-American History
Schools and Colleges
Additional tags: Guilford College
Original publisher: Greensboro, N.C. : Guilford College
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Contributing Institution: Quaker Archive, Hege Library, Guilford College
Collection: Civil Rights Clippings from Guilford College Publications
Civil Rights Greensboro
Funding source: LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
Contributor's identifier: GUI_GuilfordianCRG.0827
Gateway identifier: guilford:13213
OCLC number: 884367953

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