Develop Open Minds

Title: Develop Open Minds
Description: A letter to the editor from GMU student providing their opinion on the 1985 blackface incident, and that people need to develop open minds. They state they performed in blackface as well and that it is imitation for entertainment and out of admiration and not racism, nor is it offensive.
Creator: Beverly S. Tucker
Publisher: Broadside
Section: Letters to the Editor
Date Created: 4/29/1985
Contributor: Jacob Connelly

Research supported by George Mason University Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE) Initiative
Bibliographic Citation: Beverly S. Tucker, “Develop Open Minds,” Broadside, April 29, 1985, sec. Letters to the Editor.

Site pages: 1980s and 1990s: The KKK, Mason Days, and Derby Days; Conclusions: Four Decades of Racial Ridicule in NOVA and GMU