Items

• Black Culture Week (photograph)

  Photo, captioned "Black Culture Week." It also appears in the February 21, 1973 Ring-Tum Phi, identified as captured during the "Black Fire" performance that year.
• Black Culture Week (photograph)

  Photograph of a Black Culture Week event
• Black Awareness Week (photograph)

  Three photos of events from Black Awareness Week 1975 and a short description of the year's planned events, including: lectures by Dr. David Shannon of the Pittsburg Theological Seminary, Sam Proctor of Rutgers University, and a performance by the Virginia Union University Choir.
• Black Alumni Meet; Discuss Goals (article)

  Article on the Black Alumni Conference organized in 1980 as part of Black Emphasis Week at W&L. Black alumni, including SABU members like William Hill, met to discuss increasing black enrollment, financial aid, job placement, and filling vacant faculty positions.
• Annual Black Ball in Evans Saturday (article)

  Description of SABU-sponsored Black Ball in 1977. The theme of the formal event that year was "A Night at the Copa" and featured Anglo Saxon Brown, "a big contemporary soul band with both rock and gospel influences."
• African Jazz Group to Appear (entertainment article)

  Announcement of the upcoming performance titled "The Oneness of JuJu" by an African jazz group from Richmond. The event was sponsored by SABU in cooperation with the Rockbridge Chapter of the Virginia Museum.
• Actor to Speak Next Week (article)

  Annoucement of a public lecture by Ossie Davis, actor and playwright, as part of the Student Association for Black Unity's "Black Emphasis Week." His lecture included performances centering on the development of black American culture from slavery to the present.
• [Black Culture Week included a range of activities] (photograph)

  Two photographs of events from Black Culture Week 1974: one of Roanoke Band "The Love Men" playing at The Black Ball, the other of the Virginia Union University Choir.
• [Black Awareness Week] (photograph)

  Series of five photographs documenting events from Black Awareness Week 1975, including: a speech by the Reverend Wyatt T. Walker of the Canaan Baptist Church and the SABU-sponsored Black Ball.
• "Black Emphasis Month" Review and Outlook, Editorial Opinion of The Ring-Tum Phi

  Opinion piece on the reasons why W&L needs Black emphasis month