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Legacy of Leadership
Black Student Leadership at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Timeline of Events

1968 Tate & Flowers meeting with CU President
  Spring 1968
   
  Education Opportunity Program Started
  Summer 1968
   
  First Black Studies Class Offered
  Fall 1968
   
1969 First Black Awareness Week
  February 1969
   
  Black Student Alliance Founded
  3 March 1969
   
  S.I. Hayakawa Protest in Macky Auditorium
  3 March 1969
   
  Student Body Votes for Minority Scholarship Fee
  Spring 1969
   
1970 Minority Scholarship Protest
  26-27 February 1970
   
1978 Big 8 Council and Conference on Black Student Government Started
  1978
   
1981 CU-Boulder Hosts First Big 8 Conference on Black Student Government
  1981
   
1987 Sigma Chi Protest
  21 January 1987
   
  Dennis Small Third World Center Started
  Fall 1987
   
1988 Culture and Gender Requirement Instituted
  1988
   
  Black Alumni Organization Founded
  1988
   
  CU-Boulder Hosts Big 8 Conference on Black Student Government
  February 1988
   
  Shanty Town / Diversity Protest
  March 1988
   
1989 Dawn Massop, First Black UCSU Tri-Executive
  1989-1990
   
  Nichols Hall Renamed Cheyenne Arapaho Hall
  6 October 1989
   
1991 BSA Bureau of Information Started
  1991
   
1992 Rodney King Verdict Protest
  1 May 1992
   
1994 Kappa Alpha Psi & Alpha Phi Alpha Suspended
  1994
   
  Ethnic Studies Department Protest / Hunger Strike
  April 1994
   
  First Kwanzaa Celebration Hosted by CU-Boulder
  Fall 1994
   
1995 Jesse Jackson Protests CU Athletic Department
  11 February 1995
   
  Million Man March & Campus Demonstration
  October 1995
   
1996 Anti-Affirmative Action Protest
  14 March 1996
   
1997 Kierra Johnson, UCSU Tri-Executive
  1997-1998
   
1998 Hate-Mail Protest
  Spring 1998
   
1999 CU-Boulder Hosts Big XII Conference on Black Student Government
  19-21 February 1999