This is an essay chronicling the history of the black studies major at Grinnell College, with an emphasis on the reasons it had such a short career. It also provides an overview of the CBS (Concerned Black Students) Manifesto of 1971.
Paper by Beryl E. Clotfelter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, on the history of Grinnell College's no-requirements curriculum and the establishment of the first-year tutorial.
Color aerial photograph of the Grinnell College campus looking east along 8th Avenue in 1967. The science building is at the bottom center of the photo. To the right of that is the Men's Gymnasium (called Women's Gymnasium after 1942). The east campus dormitories and Saint John's Lutheran Church are visible near the center of the photo.
Postcard view of Blair Hall on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard number 22418N published by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.