Title

MultiCultural Center

Description

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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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.

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".

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".

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.

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.

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.
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.

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).

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.

 

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000036
Date Created
1984
Description

A large line of students march down a Cal Poly campus road. A blue Dodge Ram van is sitting to the side of the road next to the marching students. A San Luis Obispo area ridge is visible in the background.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000034
Date Created
1984
Description
The speakers are joined by Cal Poly staff. A microphone and podium are set up stage front.
Local Identifier
0063_ua_000046
Date Created
1984
Description

Among the students in the concrete Union plaza are a woman wearing purplish-pink, a student reading a book, and another looking over a document. There is a red, orange and yellow sail (possibly a student project) behind the students.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000048
Date Created
1988
Description

The women are posing to a sorority or fraternity booth. Three of the women are wearing white shirts (one of which has the words 'Dove Life' printed on it). Two others are wearing black, one with a pink undershirt and the other wearing solid black. The last woman in the group is wearing yellow. There are other men and women at the event around them.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000047
Date Created
1988
Description

Five Black students are behind a booth for the Afro-American Student Union. The sign above the booth reads "Soda 60 cents" and an unidentified food item priced at $1.50. Two other Black students are next to the booth towards the front.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000045
Date Created
1984
Description

In addition to the formal jacket, the man is wearing a white turtleneck shirt with a ribbon from the MLK event pinned onto his coat. The El Corral bookstore and a group of students are behind him. There are blue, yellow and white signs hanging from the rooftop of the bookstore.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000044
Date Created
1984
Description

The woman on the left is wearing a purple button up shirt. The woman on the right is wearing a green and white coat. Behind them is a white bus and a group of around twenty people, including two children.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000043
Date Created
1984
Description

Crowd towards the edge of the University Union plaza. A sign in a window reads "Catholic Fellowship" and the window to the left of the sign is covered with plastic sheeting.

Local Identifier
0063_ua_000041
Date Created
1984
Description

The crowd is sitting on the concrete stairs in the University Union plaza. Some students are in the back and sitting at tables or under trees. In the back hanging from the Union's second story railing, there are signs that read "- Payback. This week only!" and "SCE Meeting WED 7:30PM".