There are 2 article(s) tagged Black Student Association:

• April 2019

  • ‘We had to send a message’

    Some of the 109 BSA members arrested in the University of Memphis administration building 50 years ago this month returned Friday as a plaque noting the sit-in protest was unveiled where they were handcuffed in 1969.

    By Bill Dries April 13, 2019

  • Memphis campus looks back 50 years at the Black Student Association sit-ins

    In the late 1960s, African-American students at Memphis State would not settle for second-class citizenship, especially when they paid tuition like their white counterparts, and their parents’ tax dollars supported the institution like the parents of their white counterparts. So they organized.

    By Shirletta J. Kinchen April 12, 2019