MultiCultural Center

Records created and collected by the Cal Poly MultiCultural Center, including photographs related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day events and Black student activities on campus 1984 – 1996, as well as images of African American Student Union and Society of Black Business Students and one folder related to the Lantern Festival. Also includes VHS videotapes of campus activities and events organized by the MultiCultural Center including discussion panels, celebrations, and performances. Finding aid available at https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pg1xgc/admin/

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Parade, Martin Luther King Jr. Event, 1989
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000007
Date Created
1989
Description

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Event. The man with the beard and sunglasses in the foreground has been tentatively identified as Tony D. 1989.

[Students in front of El Corral Bookstore]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000029
Date Created
1984
Description

A group of nineteen students stand in front of the El Corral Bookstore. There are two signs, one reads "Jamaica Spring Break" and the other reads "Kiwis on Campus".

[Students in University Union plaza]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000028
Date Created
1984
Description

A group of seventeen students are near the stairs to the second floor of the University Union. A sign in one of the windows reads "Rec Sports, Special Offer".

[Two students of color in the University Union plaza]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000031
Date Created
1984
Description

Two students are pictured, one wearing a hat and glasses. Their sweatshirt bears the Greek initials A Γ P, the symbols for the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. They have a red, blue and green ribbon pinned onto their sweatshirt, possibly for the MLK event. The other student is wearing a white collar with a brown jacket.

[Two Black students near University Union wall]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000032
Date Created
1984
Description

One student is shielding their face from the sun, and is wearing a red coat over a white shirt and has a camera in their hand. The other student has a blue buttoned up shirt. Behind them is another student facing away from the camera wearing a red coat with a green, white and red cloth hanging over their shoulder.

[Three Black students in University Union plaza]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000033
Date Created
1984
Description
The student furthest to the left is wearing a brown leather jacket with a white shirt. The student in the middle has a button up orange shirt and glasses. The student furthest to the right is wearing a black and gray patterned blouse.
[MLK event march participants]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000039
Date Created
1984
Description

Seven people form a marching line, probably on North Perimeter Road, behind another line of people with black and grey suits. One of the Cal Poly area ridges is visible in the distance. In the background behind those in the line, Cal Poly buildings and cars are visible.

[MLK event mark past the Red Brick dorms]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000038
Date Created
1984
Description

Three people in black suits leading the march up North Perimeter Road, with the Red Brick dorms behind them, and the Administration Building to their right (out of the frame).

[Black student talking with White students]
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000035
Date Created
1984
Description
Four students conversing in front of the El Corral Bookstore. Their conversation is taking place in front of a small crowd. There is an illegible yellow banner hanging on the outside wall of the bookstore.

 

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