Black Student Takeover at Brandeis University (1969)

College, one thousand students tried to block off their campus but police clubbed a cooridor through the picket line.. [inaudible] Two more were injured. [outside sound] [walking sound] [Speaker]: On January 8th, 1969 at 2:30 p.m., acting out of sympathy with students from San Francisco State College and with their younger brother and sister students from the King and Timilty schools in Roxbury. Members of the Afro-American organization at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts took over an administration building, Ford Hall. [Student]: Demands are non-negotiable and must be answered in black and white with the appropriate signatures. The

demands are as followed: One, Applicant started the pardon with the power through high and five (?). This means that the committee must have an independent budget of it's own. Two, year-round recruitment of Black students by Black students and headed by a Black director. The number of student and the TYP people where I am(?) should be double next year and the administration should support and actively campaign for necessary funds. Three, there must be Black directors for the Upward Bound and TYP people programs(?). Four, immediate action on the part of the administration to have Black professors in the various departments. (Five) Establishment of an Afro-Amer- American center designed by Black students. Six, written clarification or position of the TYP students within the university structure and [inaudible] in the areas of financial aid a mission to Brandeis criteria for satisfactory of word.

Expulsion of the White student who shot a Black student before the Christmas holidays. The brochure must be accepted in the present form or only with changes accepted by Black students. The brochure must be published immediately. And just about the recruitment of African students and the [inaudible] program, and they would like to see the recruitment of Black students who are in economic needs rather than say students totally from members of the aristocracy in Africa and South America. Ten, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X full-scholarship for on and off- campus Black students. This should include transportation from the TYP program on up to graduation from university. And may I add also that there have been harrasment by officials and other dining hall officials at the University and that also [inaudible].