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| In 1973, the TCB devoted a great part of its energy toward organizing the first Black Culture Week, inviting artists, musicians, and political speakers to campus to bring Black culture directly to Trinity students. The festival began with a concert co-featuring the Elvin Jones Quartet and the soul a capella quintet, The Persuasions. Two lectures were delivered by James Turner, chairman of the African Studies Institute at Cornell University, on the rise of Black nationalism and by Herb Edwards, professor at Harvard Divinity School, on trends in Black theology. TCB would continue to hold similar annual week-long celebrations of Black Culture well into the following decade. | In 1973, the TCB devoted a great part of its energy toward organizing the first Black Culture Week, inviting artists, musicians, and political speakers to campus to bring Black culture directly to Trinity students. The festival began with a concert co-featuring the Elvin Jones Quartet and the soul a capella quintet, The Persuasions. Two lectures were delivered by James Turner, chairman of the African Studies Institute at Cornell University, on the rise of Black nationalism and by Herb Edwards, professor at Harvard Divinity School, on trends in Black theology. TCB would continue to hold similar annual week-long celebrations of Black Culture well into the following decade. | ||
| - | During the 1980-81 school year the TCB, in conjunction with the Student Coalition and the [[student_government_association|Student Government Association (SGA)]], helped to organize and sponsor the College’s first Student Awareness Day, during which all classes were cancelled and a school-wide forum centering on discrimination against minorities was to take place. The idea for an Awareness Day was born of recurring instances of intolerance to minorities on campus as reported by many individuals and student groups. After a meeting between minority student groups, the SGA, and the [[board_of_fellows|Board of Fellows]], the concept of a school-wide forum began to take form. According to a letter to faculty appealing for support for the project, the need for Awareness Day was due to a " | + | During the 1980-81 school year the TCB, in conjunction with the Student Coalition and the [[student_government_association|Student Government Association (SGA)]], helped to organize and sponsor the College’s first Student Awareness Day, during which all classes were cancelled and a school-wide forum centering on discrimination against minorities was to take place. The idea for an Awareness Day was born of recurring instances of intolerance to minorities on campus as reported by many individuals and student groups. After a meeting between minority student groups, the SGA, and the [[board_of_fellows|Board of Fellows]], the concept of a school-wide forum began to take form. According to a letter to faculty appealing for support for the project, the need for Awareness Day was due to a " |
| Throughout the second half of the decade, TCB continued to advocate for more diversity at Trinity, participating in a protest march and sit-in in the spring of 1986, during which they read their demands to the Vice President of the College, which were aimed at increasing minority enrollment. | Throughout the second half of the decade, TCB continued to advocate for more diversity at Trinity, participating in a protest march and sit-in in the spring of 1986, during which they read their demands to the Vice President of the College, which were aimed at increasing minority enrollment. | ||
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