Report on the State of Black Studies at Mundelein
F.8.13a. Black Demands. Mundelein College Records.
Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee to the White Community at Mundelein College
F.8.13a. Black Demands. Mundelein College Records.
Proposal for Black Studies Program, January 1970
Mundelein College Records
Photo, Alumnae Line, August 1970
M.4.3c. College "Strike," May 1970. Mundelein College Records.
MuCuba
1970 Yearbook, page 18. Mundelein College Records.
Interview with Joan Frances Crowley, 1998
Transcription: "The science department refused to close school. They said, some kids were going on to med school, they’ve got to have this science. So the anti-war people went up to the sixth floor where the science department was and stood outside the door—some of them knocked the students going in and it has to be said, because it’s truthful."
Mundelein College Oral History Collection
Interview with Joan Frances Crowley, 1998
Transcription: "To make a long story short, Mundelein went on strike, we had no school. It was a beautiful sunny spring. Every night kids would stand at the corner of Sheridan at the curve holding up a big anti-Vietnam War banner that said, 'Honk twice if you're against the war.'"
Mundelein College Oral History Collection
Interview with Jean Dolores Schmidt, 1998
Transcription: "As we got into the late ‘60s and the early ‘70s, students became restless. In ’69 when we had the strike and all that kind of thing, I never saw such networking as when Kent State occurred, that happened in the college and university campuses. It was just like overnight that this all happened. I happened to be acting dean that year. It was hard. It was hard for the students, it was hard for everybody. We had long meetings, students and faculty, where we filled Galvin Hall. People would say, ‘Well, we should strike until the end of the war.’ We wouldn’t even be here if we did that. So that didn’t happen. But we gave the faculty and students the opportunity to do what they wished. And that was a pretty big order…The faculty met with their students and came to some kind of a consensus on whether they would come to regular classes, whether they would do their readings or whatever on their own. They had to sign a contract to do this. So everybody was doing what she wanted."
Mundelein College Oral History Collection
Interview with David Orr, 1998
Transcription: "It was, for me, a very exciting time. I came full-time in the fall of ’69. And that’s when there was the—in terms of the Vietnam War—that many campuses were really getting active. One of the things that was so wonderful at Mundelein, both for students as well as for faculty like me, is that we had all our fights, but it was a learning community. So when I refer to that first year particularly, because the strike took place, I believe, in the Spring of 1970…The value of that war, many people in academics—and I think that I like—they believe in the value of discourse, the value of intellectual debate. Yet in many places in our society, in our politics, and in many cases our universities, there is a paucity of real debate. People are as cowardly there as they are in other places. So to have this full-fledged debate student and faculty—‘Should we do this? Should we have a strike? Wait a second, if we have a strike that’s not fair to the ones who are going to graduate. Or that’s not fair to this. Well, but on the other hand, at a time like this when people are dying and they shouldn’t be, we’ve got to change the rules.'"
Mundelein College Oral History Collection
Human Relations Committee 1970 - 1971
F.8.13a. Black Demands