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College Students Peacefully Protest
Article on end of year student protests against the university administrations firing of professors, and admissions policies that required attaching a small snapshot of applicants with all student applications, and required primarily Black students to attach three letters of recommendation.
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Student Concerns Voiced
Article on students concerns over faculty repression, firing of professors, and primarily students concerns over inequality in admissions and hiring for Blacks.
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George Mason Faculty Shifts Revive Repression Charge
Article on the outcry by faculty on repression of dissent against the university, disparities in hiring and admissions for Black faculty and students, and Chancellor Lorin Thompson's response.
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Faculty Dissent, Race Policy Focus of Confrontation at George Mason
Article on the confrontations between Chancellor Lorin Thompson and faculty over dissent being stifled, and between the Chancellor and students over race based policies in admissions, and Black students feeling unwelcome.
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Slave Sale 5
Photograph of two white male students leading the 1973 slave day, the last recorded slave day event at GMU, and first since 1971.
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Scouts Post Apology for 'Slave Sale'
Boy Scout troop in Reston apologizes with posted letter following complaints by Black community members/Reston Black Focus. Money used by the troop would be used for a trip to Disney World.
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Hire A Dirty Slave
Classified ad in the paper for a slave auction and a youth car wash to be held at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Falls Church.
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USO 'Isn't Old Ladies, Doughnuts'
Article on the Greater Washington USO near Union Station. Describes the activities thrown by the USO including slave auctions, listed in everyday activities - demonstrating the nature of slave sales as regular and accepted forms of entertainment/activities on the level of picnics and sporting events.
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Want to buy a slave?
Press release by GMC about an upcoming annual slave day put on by the college Pep Club. The sale was held in the student cafeteria on both November 6 and 7, and the day of service by "slaves" was done on the 8th. Described as "an annual institution".
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'Slave Day' Set by Youth Group
Slave slave by youth group at Annandale Methodist Church for those "wishing odd jobs done about their home"
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Church Youth Group Pla[n] for 'Slave Day'
Short article describing 'slave day' to be put on by church youth group at St. George's Episcopal in Arlington
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Even When Not In Rome
"Latin Night" slave sale at Bladensburg High (Maryland), notes how many schools throughout the region in both Maryland and Northern Virginia are taking part in Roman banquets that includes "slaves"/slave sales
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'Atoms' Set Roman Banquet
"Latin Night" style slave sale at Annandale High Roman Banquet in 1959
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Map of Hibernia, Fairfax.
Map shows the Allison's plantation, Hibernia, now part of George Mason University's Fairfax campus on the west side of Chain Bridge Road.
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Strother Gibson Dead
Obituary for Strother Gibson
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Martha Gibson Obituary
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Joseph E Willard Home
Picture postcard showing the Willard estate where Strother Gibson worked.
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Postcard showing INOVA hospital and East School Street, ca. 1970s
School Street and Eleven Oaks Elementary are in the bottom third of the postcard; Mt. Calvary Baptist sits in the bottom left corner of the card; a few other houses along Chain Bridge Road mark where other members of the Black Community lived. Postcard is labeled: “COMMONWEALTH DOCTORS HOSPITAL 4215 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Va. 22020. A new proprietary modern facility owned by the public, bought with private initiative, in response to the growing health need of the Northern Virginia Community.”
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Morarity Store
Color photo of the Morarity store on Chain Bridge Road.
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"Brad Grooms Gives Picnic"
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Marriage License for Thomas Morarity and Venie Gibson
Marriage license lists Thomas's parents as John and Eliza Morarity.
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Henry W. Thomas, 1812-1890
Portrait of Henry W. Thomas
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FXCI-RUST-008 John H. Rust L and brother Albert Rust R in front of Farr's Mills in Fairfax c 1905
John Rust, left, Albert Rust, right.
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Fairfax Courthouse Hopkins Map
Hopkins map from 1879 showing downtown Fairfax.
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Fairfax Will Book 2 page 470_Morarity
John Morarity's last will and testament