The front page of the Miami Student May 11, 1965. Features articles on Western College students, a lecture by David Bradley, town bars, and new telephone systems.
Article from "Miami University 1809-2009: Bicentennial Perspectives" on African-Americans in Oxford and at Miami in the 1940s-1960s. Includes photographs of Marian Musgrave, Rita Dove, Arthur F. Miller, and Heanon Wilkins.
Announcement and photographs of Bob Schul's, a 27 year-old Miami student, shock victory at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Schul won the gold medal for the 5000 m distance run, and remains the only American to have done so. From "Miami University" by Dan Dry.
Front page of the Miami Student October 20, 1964, announcing a win for the Miami football team over Northwestern and a win for Miami student Bob Schul at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Helen Ball at the Reserve Desk of Alumni Library in the summer of 1964. Helen went on to become the first Head of the Walter Havighurst Special Collections.
Photographs of a protest in fall 1964 outside the Oxford Municipal Building. Sponsored by the Human Relations Committee of Miami, the crowd included students Carolyn Gordon and Sibyl Harris Miller.
A pamphlet advertising a collection of political speakers brought to campus to encourage discussion and debate by speaking out with opinions that went against the grain. This group featured professors (local and visiting), authors, and academics touching on subjects such as race, tolerance, radicalism, economic freedom, and Marxism.
