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The south stands of the football stadium are destroyed in an arson-caused fire. This follows the similar burning of UI's stadium seven months earlier, and downtown Pullman's Anderson Berger Toyota on March 24th. The Lewiston National Guard…

The ASWSU Senate authorizes the formation of the "Soulin' Coubabes," an African American spirit squad intended to "promote more school spirit among black students and black players." The image featured in this item may be found in the Chinook digital…

MEChA recruits in the CUB lobby for its weekly picketing of Pullman's Safeway store, asking people to refuse to buy grapes.

A Molotov cocktail is thrown into a basement hallway of Waller Hall, but quickly extinguished by the residents. Three other arson fires occur in Waller in the weeks around this.

WSU hosts a full day of environmental talks, films, and forums, as part of the first ever "Earth Day." Washington senator Henry M. Jackson speaks in the CUB Ballroom about environmental issues. Jackson, a Vietnam supporter, was repeatedly shouted…

Four male black WSU students, including the head of the Black Student Union, are arrested and charged with "willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, perpetrating an act of sexual Intercourse with a female, not his wife, by forcefully overcoming her…

President Nixon sends U.S. troops across the Vietnamese border into Cambodia, which is being used as a sanctuary by the People's Army of Vietnam (they can strike at South Vietnam forces and U.S. forces and then withdraw into Cambodian territory and…

During a protest against the invasion of Cambodia, four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed when National Guardsmen open fire on the protesters.

Hundreds of students occupy the French Administration Building ("Fort French"), refusing to leave until President Terrell submits to their demands. The WSU protest is one of many across the nation on May 5 protesting the Kent State University…

A "Black Symposium," sponsored by the Political Union Committee and the Black Studies Program, is held on campus, bringing in speakers and films about the black experience.

An all-day Indochina teach-in is held in the CUB ballroom; classes are cancelled so students can attend. This was one of the demands that President Terrell had agreed to in ending the "Fort French" occupation.

An alliance of self-described "Third World" student groups presents the University with a list of eleven demands as "a minimum commitment against racism." President Terrell would reject these demands on May 22. The label Third World arises from the…

President Terrell releases his (mostly negative) response to the eleven demands.

4:30 PM. 250 students stage a sit-in blocking Stadium Way for 90 minutes. At one point, a demonstrator throws a two-by-four through the window of a car attempting to drive around them. The image featured in this item may be found in the Barbara J.…

A student strike from May 24-June1, including all-day picketing of campus buildings, begins in response to Terrell's rejection of Third World student group demands. Students also announce an intent to withdraw all their money from downtown bank, and…

The University announces a new Chicano Studies Program.

The Resident Instruction Staff (RIS) announces students may petition to have their grades based on work done to that point in the term, effectively making finals optional.

Commencement goes off without a hitch; President Terrell is cheered when he commends the demonstrators for their dedication to non-violence. The image featured in this item may be found in the Paul Philemon Kies Photograph Collection…

Portraits of the Washington State University football players from the program for the 11/23/1968 football game between Washington State University and the University of Washington (page 16). This page is part of the digital exhibit about student…

Portraits of the Washington State University football players from the program for the 11/18/1972 football game between Washington State University and the University of Washington (page 19). This page is part of the digital exhibit about student…

28 x 22 cm. handbill, 1 page. 11 demands from Chicano Studies, echoing the 11 Third World demands, to help reduce racism.

Silent color film of University of Idaho (UI) students walking from UI to Washington State University (WSU) several days after UI's Oct. 24 1959 27-5 loss in the "Battle of the Palouse" football game. Starting in 1938, for many years it was a…

America's first Mafia family, the Morellos, usher in a level of brutality and violence never seen before in New York City.

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Male work crew posed inside warehouse. Asians (probably Japanese), one Sikh in turban. Probably strawberry packing house.

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New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition

Timber crew from the Clemons Logging Company, on the Chehalis River east of Aberdeen. By 1935, Washington's timber workers went on strike for better conditions and the legal recognition of their union. The timber workers' strike faced an often…

A Hanford Site worker wearing ionization chambers and a film badge during Manhattan Project plutonium production.

A security checkpoint on the border of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation